Inside Cisco IOS Software Architecture

Index

Symbols

* (asterisk)

process switching, 44

show process command, 18

2-way radix trees (Fast Cache), 51–52

256-way multiway tree (mtree), 56–57

7000 series routers, 87, 92–93

7200 series routers, 99–101

hardware, 101–104

memory, 104–106

packet switching, 106–111

7500 series routers, 113

data buses, 114

packet switching, 123

receiving packets, 124, 127

switching packets, 126–129

transmitting packets, 129–131

RSP (Route Switch Processor), 115–123

CPUs (central processing units), 116

main memory, 123

MEMD (memory D), 116–122

troubleshooting, 142

CPUs (central processing units), 142–144

ignore counters, 145

input drop counter, 144

output drop counters, 145

VIP (Versatile Interface Processor), 131–140

models, 134–135

receive side buffering, ...