[124746] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: legacy /8
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christopher Morrow)
Sun Apr 4 16:04:18 2010
In-Reply-To: <19E7C0EA-03D9-43A4-9E65-57565F2144C2@virtualized.org>
Date: Sun, 4 Apr 2010 16:03:05 -0400
From: Christopher Morrow <morrowc.lists@gmail.com>
To: David Conrad <drc@virtualized.org>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Sun, Apr 4, 2010 at 2:24 PM, David Conrad <drc@virtualized.org> wrote:
> On Apr 3, 2010, at 10:46 PM, Michael Dillon wrote:
>> The fact is that lack of fastpath support doesn't matter until IPv6
>> traffic levels get high enough to need the fastpath.
>
> Yeah, fortunately, the fact that your router is burning CPU doing IPv6 has no impact on stuff like BGP convergence.
also, for the record, there are parts of this ipv6 internet thing
where ... doing things in the slowpath is no longer feasible.
