BRKARC-3468
BRKARC-3468
BRKARC-3468
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Catalyst 6880-X: Packet Walks<br />
Remote Forwarding (Egress)<br />
Step 10: Fabric ASIC transmits frame<br />
to Egress Fabric Port, which is received<br />
by Egress FIRE ASIC<br />
Step 12: Inband FPGA parses<br />
Internal Header, and then it sends to<br />
Forwarding Engine<br />
Step 13: Forwarding Engine<br />
performs an egress (L2) lookup to<br />
learn MAC address.<br />
Then it returns Internal Header to FIRE<br />
ASIC (via Inband FPGA)<br />
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Step 11: FIRE ASIC uses Fabric<br />
Header to derive new Internal header,<br />
which it sends to Forwarding Engine<br />
(egress lookup)<br />
Step 14: FIRE ASIC uses new Internal<br />
Header to determine Egress Port and<br />
reassemble the packet, and then it<br />
sends to MUX ASIC<br />
Step 15: MUX ASIC uses Internal<br />
Header to determine Egress Port<br />
and perform egress QoS. Then it<br />
sends to Port ASIC<br />
Step 16: Port ASIC uses removes<br />
Internal Header and rewrites VLAN,<br />
CoS, etc. Then it sends to PHY<br />
Step 17: PHY serializes the bits<br />
& converts signal, and then<br />
transmits the packet<br />
Step 18: Packet Leaves<br />
@ Egress Port 16<br />
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