[147983] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: subnet prefix length > 64 breaks IPv6?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark Tinka)
Thu Dec 29 03:58:18 2011
From: Mark Tinka <mtinka@globaltransit.net>
To: nanog@nanog.org
Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2011 16:56:46 +0800
In-Reply-To: <20111228.204648.74712906.sthaug@nethelp.no>
Reply-To: mtinka@globaltransit.net
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On Thursday, December 29, 2011 03:46:48 AM sthaug@nethelp.no=20
wrote:
> And there are other platforms, e.g. Juniper M/MX/T, where
> there is no concept of "punt a packet to software to
> perform a forwarding decision". The packet is either
> forwarded in hardware, or dropped. IPv6 prefixes > 64
> bit are handled like any other IPv6 prefixes, i.e. they
> are forwarded in hardware.
IOS XR-based systems operate the same way.
Mark.
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