[124763] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: legacy /8
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Randy Bush)
Sun Apr 4 18:50:51 2010
Date: Mon, 05 Apr 2010 07:50:08 +0900
From: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
To: David Conrad <drc@virtualized.org>
In-Reply-To: <19E7C0EA-03D9-43A4-9E65-57565F2144C2@virtualized.org>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
>> 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.
and, after all, if ipv6 takes off, we plan to throw away our investment
in current routers and buy new ones. gsrs and crss are cheap.
i think this is a great thread. ten new entries in my .procmailrc. of
course the person to whom you were responding was there looooong ago.
randy
