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

[james machado <hvgeekwtrvl () gmail com>]

2012/3/14 Masataka Ohta <mohta () necom830 hpcl titech ac jp>:
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> 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.
>
>                                                Masataka Ohta

I found this bit of research from 2007 (
http://www.cise.ufl.edu/~wlu/papers/tcam.pdf ).  It seems to me there
are probably more ways to mix and match different types of ram to be
able to deal with this beast.

james