legacy /8

joel jaeggli joelja at bogus.com
Sun Apr 4 23:32:21 UTC 2010


Last time I checked, some of the state of the art 2004 era silicon I had laying around could forward v6 just fine in hardware.  It's not so usefyl due to it's fib being a bit undersized for 330k routes plus v6, but hey, six years is long time.

Christopher Morrow <morrowc.lists at gmail.com> wrote:

>On Sun, Apr 4, 2010 at 2:24 PM, David Conrad <drc at virtualized.org> wrote:
>> On Apr 3, 2010, at 10:46 PM, Michael Dillon wrote:
>
>>> The fact is that lack of fastpath support doesn't matter until IPv6
>>> traffic levels get high enough to need the fastpath.
>>
>> Yeah, fortunately, the fact that your router is burning CPU doing IPv6 has no impact on stuff like BGP convergence.
>
>also, for the record, there are parts of this ipv6 internet thing
>where ... doing things in the slowpath is no longer feasible.
>


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