[143549] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IPv6 end user addressing
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark Newton)
Thu Aug 11 22:20:11 2011
From: Mark Newton <newton@internode.com.au>
To: Scott Helms <khelms@ispalliance.net>
Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2011 02:19:34 +0000
In-Reply-To: <4E444F50.8070603@ispalliance.net>
Cc: "<nanog@nanog.org>" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 12/08/2011, at 7:23 AM, Scott Helms wrote:
> The question I asked you is why should I as the service provider deploy r=
outers rather than bridges as CPE gear for residential customers.=20
As a service provider, you don't want to burn an expensive TCAM slot to mak=
e
IPv6 ND work for every device a customer places on their LAN.
As a service provider, it's better to burn one TCAM slot per customer for t=
he
prefix you route to them, and leave adjacency relationships within their ho=
me
to them.
Think of MAC address table size limits on switches. Similar problem.
- mark
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