sthaug@nethelp.no (sthaug@nethelp.no) wrote:
I'd have to say that RFC 3513 is out of touch with reality here, yes. As far as I know current routers with hardware based forwarding look at the full 128 bits - certainly our Juniper routers do.
Ours do as well, but essentially, that's because they are internal to our network. Nobody would need that in the shared DFZ part, there I agree with Rubens. So although you would need the longer prefixes (right up to /128) in your routing core, you would not necessarily have to have them in your edge routers (as long as they don't directly connect to your core, like Cisco keeps telling us we should do). Dunno whether that's a feasible approach, probably not (big transit providers essentially pushing transit through the core), but if possible, it would lighten the routing burden a lot. Yours, Elmar. -- "Begehe nur nicht den Fehler, Meinung durch Sachverstand zu substituieren." (PLemken, <bu6o7e$e6v0p$2@ID-31.news.uni-berlin.de>) --------------------------------------------------------------[ ELMI-RIPE ]---