IPv6 PI allocation

Jun-ichiro itojun Hagino 2.0 itojun at itojun.org
Thu May 17 15:41:19 CEST 2007


> > 	ok, but i guess TCAM-based CISCO routers would be able to handle
> > 	256K IPv6 routers (instead of 512K)
> 
> you're not correct, numbers posted by Gert was - in Cisco FIB TCAM uses 
> IPv6 prefix 144 bits and IPv4 prefix uses 72 bits. That's explains why 
> you have half number of IPv6 prefixes in hardware compared to maximum of 
> IPv4 possible.

	so cisco is assuming that /64 boundary on all the routes, right?
	i guess cisco needs some clue injection - i'm happy to do that if
	they want to.  see /64-or-/128 discussion on my previous email.

itojun



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