[124780] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: legacy /8
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christopher Morrow)
Sun Apr 4 22:49:22 2010
In-Reply-To: <4BB94DF5.8080406@bogus.com>
Date: Sun, 4 Apr 2010 19:48:48 -0700
From: Christopher Morrow <morrowc.lists@gmail.com>
To: joel jaeggli <joelja@bogus.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Sun, Apr 4, 2010 at 7:41 PM, joel jaeggli <joelja@bogus.com> wrote:
> On 4/4/2010 5:10 PM, Christopher Morrow wrote:
>>
>> On Sun, Apr 4, 2010 at 4:32 PM, joel jaeggli<joelja@bogus.com> =A0wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Last time I checked, some of the state of the art 2004 era silicon I ha=
d
>>> laying around could forward v6 just fine in hardware. =A0It's not so us=
efyl
>>> due to it's fib being a bit undersized for 330k routes plus v6, but hey=
, six
>>> years is long time.
>>>
>>
>> <cough>4948</cough> =A0(not 6yrs old, but... still forwards v6 in the
>> slow-path, weee!)
>>
>
> Yes it does. and the slow path is sloooooooooow on the that switch. but
> switches and routers did and do come in colors other than blue.
but, but, but.. then it won't match! and seriously, I can't have
another run in with the fashion police.
In actual seriousness, my point is that plenty of this sort of gear is
in the network, and will be for a time. It's sort of inexcusable that
vendors put out gear 5 years ago that didn't do v6 in the fast path...
oh well.
-chris
