November 21, 2014
The following key concepts will be explained here: 1.1.b Identify Cisco express forwarding concepts 1.1.b (i) RIB, FIB, LFIB, Adjacency table 1.1.b (ii) Load balancing Hash 1.1.b (iii) Polarization concept and avoidance Cisco Express Forwarding (CEF) is a cisco proprietary technology which allows for more efficient and faster layer 3 switching. It is a type of interrupt context switching as opposed to process switching. It offloads much of the processing involved in layer 3 switching to the hardware; unlike the […]