OMB: IPv6 by June 2008

Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu
Sat Jul 9 13:55:00 UTC 2005


On Sat, 09 Jul 2005 00:56:29 PDT, Alexei Roudnev said:
> 
> It's chiken and egg problem. They do not have 4 Gb, because they do not need
> it_now_. techbnically it is not a problem even today.
> Small RAID systems have 1 Gb RAM easily.
> 
> Line cards do not need so much memory - they can always cache routing
> tables.

Two words: "cache miss".  And unlike a L1/L2 cache miss in a modern PC, where
the CPU will *wait* for you to fill the cache line, the other end of that OC-192
is still in firehose mode....
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