Re: Are SW upgrades needed in MPLS core networks?

["Rubens Kuhl Jr." <rubens () email com>]

> > > Based on the results it seems to be easy to conclude that about the
> > > only reason to put IPv6 over [v4 over] MPLS on the networks (rather
> > > than directly on top of the physical infrastructure) is due to the
> > > other reason, because some vendors have sold crappy hardware which
> > > does not support IPv6, or does not offer sufficiently good IPv6
> > > performance.
> > Even hardware with good IPv6 performance seems to forward at half the
rate
> > of IPv4/MPLS packets;
>
> we call that crappy hardware

Based on such point of view, non-crappy hardware would be: (blank) and
crappy hardware would be (blank), could you fill the blanks ?


Rubens