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RE: Using IPv6 with prefixes shorter than a /64 on a LAN
From: "George Bonser" <gbonser () seven com>
Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2011 11:25:26 -0800
In any case, the fact you can stick a terabyte of RAM into a 4U Dell rack mount that sucks a whole lot of power doesn't mean we're anywhere near being able to do it for consumer-class hardware. Remember, much of the growth is going to be in the embedded and special purpose systems - the smart phone/PDA/handheld game system arena, etc. How many fully loaded R910's will Dell sell, and how many iPhones will Apple sell? How long before a Blackberry or an iPhone has a terabyte
of
RAM? (For that matter, when will they get to a terabyte of SSD capacity?)
There are other reasons to use a /64. Some vendors have the option of storing either the /64 prefix or the entire /128 in CAM. The option to select one mode or the other is often not specific to a route but is a global option. If you want hardware switching of nets smaller than /64, you need to enable the mode that places the entire address in CAM. Doing that results in an increase in resources required to hold routes resulting in fewer routes in hardware at any given time. So hardware that, by default, places the entire address in CAM is fine, but if you have the option of using only the /64 prefix then an IPv6 route becomes less expensive (only 2x the "cost" of a v4 route in resources rather than 4x the cost).
Current thread:
- Re: Using IPv6 with prefixes shorter than a /64 on a LAN, (continued)
- Re: Using IPv6 with prefixes shorter than a /64 on a LAN Owen DeLong (Jan 25)
- Re: Using IPv6 with prefixes shorter than a /64 on a LAN Eugen Leitl (Jan 26)
- Re: Using IPv6 with prefixes shorter than a /64 on a LAN Roland Dobbins (Jan 26)
- RE: Using IPv6 with prefixes shorter than a /64 on a LAN Mikael Abrahamsson (Jan 25)
- Re: Using IPv6 with prefixes shorter than a /64 on a LAN Owen DeLong (Jan 26)
- Re: Using IPv6 with prefixes shorter than a /64 on a LAN Owen DeLong (Jan 25)
- Re: Using IPv6 with prefixes shorter than a /64 on a LAN Leen Besselink (Jan 30)
- Re: Using IPv6 with prefixes shorter than a /64 on a LAN Laurent GUERBY (Jan 30)
- Re: Using IPv6 with prefixes shorter than a /64 on a LAN Owen DeLong (Jan 30)
- Re: Using IPv6 with prefixes shorter than a /64 on a LAN Valdis . Kletnieks (Jan 30)
- RE: Using IPv6 with prefixes shorter than a /64 on a LAN George Bonser (Jan 30)
- Re: Using IPv6 with prefixes shorter than a /64 on a LAN Fernando Gont (Jan 25)
- Re: Using IPv6 with prefixes shorter than a /64 on a LAN Ray Soucy (Jan 25)
- Re: Using IPv6 with prefixes shorter than a /64 on a LAN Fernando Gont (Jan 25)
- Re: Using IPv6 with prefixes shorter than a /64 on a LAN Roland Dobbins (Jan 25)
- Re: Using IPv6 with prefixes shorter than a /64 on a LAN Jimmy Hess (Jan 25)
- Re: Using IPv6 with prefixes shorter than a /64 on a LAN Roland Dobbins (Jan 25)
- Re: Using IPv6 with prefixes shorter than a /64 on a LAN Fernando Gont (Jan 25)
- Re: Using IPv6 with prefixes shorter than a /64 on a LAN Owen DeLong (Jan 26)
- Re: Using IPv6 with prefixes shorter than a /64 on a LAN Fernando Gont (Jan 26)