Naive IPv6 (was AT&T UVERSE Native IPv6, a HOWTO)

Wed Dec 4 21:30:04 UTC 2013

On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 3:58 PM, Brian Dickson
<brian.peter.dickson at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 3:48 PM, Christopher Morrow <morrowc.lists at gmail.com>
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>> On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 3:43 PM, Brian Dickson
>> <brian.peter.dickson at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Except that we have a hard limit of 1M total, which after a few 100K
>> > from
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>> where does the 1M come from?
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> FIB table sizes, usually dictated by TCAM size. Think deployed hardware,
> lots of it.
> (Most instances of TCAM share it for IPv4 + IPv6, with each slot on IPv6
> taking two slots of TCAM, IIRC. And a few other things also consume TCAM,
> maybe not as significantly.)
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> (Newer boxes may handle more on some network's cores, but I don't believe it
> is ubiquitously the case across the DFZ.)
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ok, that's fair... but in ~5yrs time we'll work ourslves out of the 1M
mark, right? to 5M or 10M? (or something more than 1M)