19 Nov
2021
19 Nov
'21
1:58 p.m.
On 11/19/21 10:15 AM, William Herrin wrote:
On Fri, Nov 19, 2021 at 10:04 AM Michael Thomas <mike@mtcc.com> wrote:
I don't think you can overstate how ASIC's made changing anything pretty much impossible. It's why all of the pissing and moaning about what ipv6 looked like completely missed the point. There was a fuse lit in 1992 to when the first hardware based routing was done. *Anything* that extended the address space would have been better. Obligatory 2007 plug: https://bill.herrin.us/network/ipxl.html
And just as impossible since it would pop it out of the fast path. Does big iron support ipv6 these days? Mike