Thanks for confirmation - But if I put a command # no ip route-cache under the vlan interface which face the two balanced links, this will lead to per-packet behavior but in cpu processing Not hardware processing provided by CEF. correct me if I'm wrong.

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Adham Abdallah

Network Engineer

Summit Technology Solutions

adham.mohamed wrote:
Thanks for confirmation - But if I put a command # no ip route-cache under the vlan interface which face the two balanced links, this will lead to per-packet behavior but in cpu processing Not hardware processing provided by CEF. correct me if I'm wrong.
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Adham Abdallah
Network Engineer
Summit Technology Solutions

Can you actually put that command in ie. "no ip route-cache" ? As far as i am aware you cannot disable CEF on a 4500 but i could be wrong.

Jon

Yes I can put int under vlan interface. My assumption is to enable legacy route-cache load balancing per packet.

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Adham Abdallah

Network Engineer

Summit Technology Solutions

Hey,

I think you can only disable dCEF for your linecards on a 4500, but not disable CEF completely -- with the #no ip cef distributed command, but this will just lead to centralized cef switching.

Can you issue the following command and see what output you get after you issue the ip route-cache command?

I just tried on one of my 4500s and I can't issue that command.

#sh cef int vl2216
Vlan2216 is down (if_number 209)
  ...
  Hardware idb is Vlan2216
  Fast switching type 21, interface type 156
  IP CEF switching enabled
  IP CEF switching turbo vector
  IP prefix lookup IPv4 mtrie 8-8-8-8 optimized
 ...

Yes I can put int under vlan interface. My assumption is to enable legacy route-cache load balancing per packet. 
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Adham Abdallah
Network Engineer
Summit Technology Solutions

Hi Adham,

Cat 4500 series switches support per-destination and Load Sharing Hash Function, check out the below link on further information.

http://72.163.4.161/en/US/docs/switches/lan/catalyst4500/12.2/31sga/configuration/guide/cef.html#wp1146775

and no "ip route-cache" starts process switching, in which each packet is checked for source and destination IP from the routing table. You get per-packet load balancing if you have more than one path to the destination.

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Ganesh.H

Hello Adham,

>> My assumption is to enable legacy route-cache load balancing per packet.

given the multilayer switch nature of the platform this is :

a) not recommnded at all

b) possibly ineffective depending on multilayer CEF implementation you could end up with just process switching packets that would be sent to main cpu.

Depending on what device is on the other side you should consider:

a L2 or L3 etherchannel can be used

Hope to help

Giuseppe