How Hunt Groups Load Share

Forwarding Engines and Fabric Ports

Each 80-series Media module has at least two Forwarding Engines, and as many as eight. These engines are the major hardware components for bridging and routing data traffic. The Forwarding Engines can service up to twelve 10/100 Mbps ports. Example, 24-port 10/100 Mbps 80-series media module has two Forwarding Engines that service twelve 10/100 Mbps ports each. An eight-port Gigabit module has eight forwarding engines one for each of the Gigabit ports per slot. See Table�37 for the relationship of media modules (50-series and 80-series) to Forwarding Engines.