[104184] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: [NANOG] would ip6 help us safeing energy ?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jorge Amodio)
Tue Apr 29 12:31:44 2008
Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2008 11:31:31 -0500
From: "Jorge Amodio" <jmamodio@gmail.com>
To: "Marc Manthey" <marc@let.de>
In-Reply-To: <BF705178-D652-433A-AF3C-9D3028E158DE@let.de>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
> Isn=B4t this an argument for ip6 / greenip6 ;) aswell ?
>
besides the multicast argument, ipv6 and the transition to it
with dual stacks, etc, etc, afaik will require more horsepower
and memory to handle routing info/updates, don't think so
it will reduce energy consumption au contraire.
one place where major improvements can be made is to
increase the efficiency of switched power supplies on servers
and other gear installed in large datacenters.
My .02
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