| Exam 350-401 | Question id=5939 | Architecture |
What is the difference between CEF and process switching?
| A. |
CEF processes packets that are too complex for process switching to manage. | |
| B. |
Process switching is faster than CEF. | |
| C. |
CEF uses the FIB and the adjacency table to make forwarding decisions, whereas process switching punts each packet. | |
| D. |
CEF is more CPU-intensive than process switching. |