Friday, September 4, 2009

Routers

Layer 3 Routing

  • Single broadcast domain per interface
  • Every router is its own broadcast domain
  • ACLs can be applied between segments

Issues

  • High per-port cost
  • Layer 3 processing required
  • High latency over layer 2 switching
  • Layers 3 processing happens in software

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