On Oct 27, 2012, at 11:00 PM, Pete Lumbis <alum...@gmail.com> wrote:
> You might want to take a look at the CEF book, which expands on this > http://www.amazon.com/Cisco-Express-Forwarding-ebook/dp/B0015V9DQU/ > > both of these are still very accurate on how IOS operates today. The > only major changes with IOS-XE is that IOS is now a process and packet > forwarding is handled in hardware instead of software. On the IOS-XE it's no longer single process, when you're running in the modular version. It's getting complicated. > For NX-OS and IOS-XR the software/operating system is wildly different > and I think there is a definite gap in literature out there. For now, there's Cisco Live and techtorials about architecture and inner works. There will be a book, or two :) -- "There's no sense in being precise when | Ćukasz Bromirski you don't know what you're talking | jid:lbromir...@jabber.org about." John von Neumann | http://lukasz.bromirski.net