25 Jan
2011
25 Jan
'11
1:02 a.m.
IPv6 is classless; routers cannot blindly make that assumption for "performance optimization".
Blindly, no. However, it's not impractical to implement fast path switching that handles things on /64s and push anything that requires something else to the slow path.
Any vendor who was stupid enough to do *hardware* switching for up to /64 and punted the rest to software would certainly not get any sales from us. 128 bits. No magic. Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug@nethelp.no