[124800] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: legacy /8
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Franck Martin)
Mon Apr 5 04:15:59 2010
From: Franck Martin <franck@genius.com>
To: Christopher Morrow <morrowc.lists@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <k2v75cb24521004041948i3e4e8244j6874ac7517c2eaee@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 5 Apr 2010 18:37:09 +1200
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Do like the Chinese if you want a feature put out a billion dollar =20
tender with the feature mandatory and they will rush to do it
Toute connaissance est une r=C3=A9ponse =C3=A0 une question
On 5/04/2010, at 14:48, Christopher Morrow <morrowc.lists@gmail.com> =20
wrote:
> 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> =20
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Last time I checked, some of the state of the art 2004 era =20
>>>> silicon I had
>>>> laying around could forward v6 just fine in hardware. It's not =20
>>>> so usefyl
>>>> due to it's fib being a bit undersized for 330k routes plus v6, =20
>>>> but hey, six
>>>> years is long time.
>>>>
>>>
>>> <cough>4948</cough> (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. =20=
>> 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
>
