Chapter 4. Routers, Switches, and Appliances—IP-Based Services: Network Layer
Traditional Ethernet packet forwarding decisions were based on Layer 2 and Layer 3 destination Media Access Control (MAC) and IP addresses. As performance, availability, and scalability requirements grew, advances in switching decisions based on intelligent packet processing tried to keep pace by offloading functions traditionally implemented in software and executed on general purpose RISC processors onto network processors, Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs), or Application Specific Integrated Circuits (ASICS). Early server load balancing implementations were implemented in software and executed on general purpose RISC processors, which then evolved to services ...
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