29 Dec
2011
29 Dec
'11
8:56 a.m.
On Thursday, December 29, 2011 03:46:48 AM sthaug@nethelp.no wrote:
And there are other platforms, e.g. Juniper M/MX/T, where there is no concept of "punt a packet to software to perform a forwarding decision". The packet is either forwarded in hardware, or dropped. IPv6 prefixes > 64 bit are handled like any other IPv6 prefixes, i.e. they are forwarded in hardware.
IOS XR-based systems operate the same way. Mark.