Point-to-point /64

Gert Doering gert at space.net
Sun Jun 2 17:00:28 CEST 2013


Hi,

On Sat, Jun 01, 2013 at 01:56:23PM -0700, Jeroen Massar wrote:
> One thing to keep in mind though is that quite some gear is optimized
> upto the first /64 bits, and might use slower paths for longer prefixes,

I keep hearing this statement, but so far, have never heard specifics about
"which gear is that" and "how big is the impact", so I tend to file this
under "urban lore".

Do you have specifics?  Which vendors, which platforms, what impact?

Gert Doering
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