IPv6 routes, was: How Not to Multihome

Tue Oct 9 01:21:27 UTC 2007

On 10/8/07, Keegan.Holley at sungard.com <Keegan.Holley at sungard.com> wrote:
> Wouldn't resources still be an issue.  Since the address space is so much
> larger wouldn't the 235k v6 routes take up more than 4 times the router
> memory?

Keegan,

According to Cisco's product feature pages IPv6 routes take up twice
as much space in the TCAM as IPv4 routes. Make of that what you will.

Regards,
Bill Herrin

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