CMTS support of IPv6

[Daniel Roesen]

On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 02:07:26PM +0200, Michael Adams wrote:
> Rickman, Phil,  28 Apr 2010 8:50:
> 
> > UBR 10ks have full support but it is software based forwarding
> > We see a 70-90 increase in processor load with 5-10 meg of transit traffic.
> 
> As far as I know PRE2 is doing v6 software based. PRE4 supports v6 in hardware.

The hardware might, but IOS doesn't yet support HW-offload. So you're
still "process switch" the traffic. Useless. I think that was Phil's
comment regarding 12.2SCD, which should deliver basic(!) v6 HW fowarding
(at least unicast).

Best regards,
Daniel

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