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On Thu, 14 Nov 1996, Alan Batie wrote:

> The 2501 uses a medium to low speed 68000 processor and does no "fast
> switching" (i.e. the interface has a cache w/hardware to look up routes
> without involving the processor, which just processes routing updates
> and downloads the tables into the cache).

68030, I believe (or at least that's what I found in our documentation).