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Supervisor Engine and DFC

AhmedBassiony
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‎08-29-2012 05:53 AM - edited ‎03-04-2019 05:24 PM

Hello Guys

If we use DFC in the linecard, it will perform switching and routing and ACL and QoS, so in this case why should I use Supervisore Engine? Also why there is a matching between DFC and PFC? sorry for that silly question

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Ivan Shirshin
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‎08-29-2012 07:08 AM

Hi Ahmed,

Check this document, it wil answer msot of questions about PFC, DFC and CFC.

DFC does the forwarding based on information syncronized with supervisor, simply offloading the forwading to be done locally. It is supervisor engine that builds the forwarding tables and manages l2/l3 protocols (as well as many other things, starting with booting the cards and checking HW), so without it your switch/router would not run.

Kind Regards,
Ivan

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Kind Regards,
Ivan
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