Point-to-point /64

Gert Doering gert at space.net
Sun Jun 2 22:14:50 CEST 2013


Hi,

On Sun, Jun 02, 2013 at 05:49:05PM +0200, Ivan Pepelnjak wrote:
> I thought it was urban lore until I started digging into data sheets for various DC switches covered in my DC Fabrics webinar (yeah, couldn't resist ;)
> 
> All high-speed DC switches use some variant of TCAM-based forwarding.
> Most of them have shared TCAM for IPv4 and IPv6 with IPv6 table
> size being 1/2 IPv4 table size. Draw your own conclusions.

Insufficient data to draw conclusions.  It could be that "forwarding 
performance for *all* IPv6 is only half the pps rate as for IPv4" (due
to "alway doing two lookups"), or anything else, or a combination of
that.

Gert Doering
        -- NetMaster
-- 
have you enabled IPv6 on something today...?

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