IPv6 /64 links (was Re: ipv6 book recommendations?)

Masataka Ohta mohta at necom830.hpcl.titech.ac.jp
Fri Jun 22 02:35:15 UTC 2012


valdis.kletnieks at vt.edu wrote:

>> Unlike IPv4 with natural boundary of /24, routing table
>> explosion of IPv6 is a serious scalability problem.
> 
> Do you have any *realistic* and *actual* reason to suspect that the IPv6
> routing table will "explode" any further than the IPv4 has already?

That's not the point. The problem is that SRAMs scale well but
CAMs do not.

						Masataka Ohta




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