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Re: IPv6 /64 links (was Re: ipv6 book recommendations?)


From: Masataka Ohta <mohta () necom830 hpcl titech ac jp>
Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2012 11:35:15 +0900

valdis.kletnieks () vt edu wrote:

Unlike IPv4 with natural boundary of /24, routing table
explosion of IPv6 is a serious scalability problem.

Do you have any *realistic* and *actual* reason to suspect that the IPv6
routing table will "explode" any further than the IPv4 has already?

That's not the point. The problem is that SRAMs scale well but
CAMs do not.

                                                Masataka Ohta


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