On Sun, Apr 4, 2010 at 4:32 PM, joel jaeggli <joelja@bogus.com> wrote:
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.
<cough>4948</cough> (not 6yrs old, but... still forwards v6 in the slow-path, weee!)
Christopher Morrow <morrowc.lists@gmail.com> wrote:
On Sun, Apr 4, 2010 at 2:24 PM, David Conrad <drc@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.