12-27-2022 11:10 PM
switches use ASICS to store FIB & adjacency table in CAM & TCAM which are in ASICS.
hence multilayer switches can do routing & switching very fast.
But routers do not use ASICS so how do they create CEF table and where it is stored ?
12-28-2022 12:45 AM
In routers the CEF table is in volatile memory.
12-28-2022 02:56 AM
some Router is hybrid router
12-28-2022 09:20 AM
"But routers do not use ASICS so how do they create CEF table and where it is stored ?"
Where stored? As answered by @Richard Burts, main RAM.
How CEF table created? Likely by software.
Regarding routers not using ASICs, as described by @MHM Cisco World, often "higher end" routers (e.g. ASR 1K series) do use "extra" hardware for acceleration of some "core" routing features.
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