Re: legacy /8

[Christopher Morrow <morrowc.lists () gmail com>]

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.