CEF

Overview 

Cisco Express Forwarding

CEF is a cisco proprietary protocol 'switching mechanism(layer3)'


Alternative to Process Switching

Contains a couple forwarding tables:

  • Forwarding Information Base (FIB) - Layer 3, Similar to routing table
  • CEF Adjacency Table - Next hop devices/single or layer 2 next hop.

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