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I get that you would want all that stuff in a router, but the article is mostly about a new type of top-of-rack switch. My understanding (based on experience th
by minimax 13y ago
I get that you would want all that stuff in a router, but the article is mostly about a new type of top-of-rack switch. My understanding (based on experience that is now a few years old) is that a top-of-rack switch basically only handles layer two switching duties and a separate core router handles the layer three business.
- wmf 13y agoSome people perform routing in the ToR because STP doesn't scale. And TRILL/SPB have been proposed to make Ethernet scale, but then they end up having similar complexity as routing (even using IS-IS).