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Re: Shim6, was: Re: filtering /48 is going to be necessary


From: Masataka Ohta <mohta () necom830 hpcl titech ac jp>
Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2012 21:57:10 +0900

Eugen Leitl wrote:

For high speed (fixed time) routed look up with 1M entries, SRAM is
cheap at /24 and is fine at /32 but expensive and power consuming
TCAM is required at /48.

That's one reason why we should stay away from IPv6.

What prevents you from using
http://www.nature.com/ncomms/journal/v1/n6/full/ncomms1063.html
with IPv6?

Though I didn't paid $32 to read the full paper, it's like
a proposal of geography based addressing.

So, I should ask what prevents you from using it with IPv4?

                                                Masataka Ohta


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