[149463] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Optimal IPv6 router
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joel jaeggli)
Sun Feb 5 21:02:35 2012
Date: Sun, 05 Feb 2012 18:01:41 -0800
From: Joel jaeggli <joelja@bogus.com>
To: Glen Kent <glen.kent@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <CAPLq3UPr7C9sfdCmqgnALRFuviwujh+F3hir_X1yg8aWasO3tA@mail.gmail.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 2/5/12 17:20 , Glen Kent wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Most routers today are basically IPv4 routers, with IPv6 thrown in.
> They are however designed keeping IPv4 in mind.
>
> With IPv6 growing, if we were to design a native IPv6 router, with
> IPv4 functionality thrown in, then is it possible to design a more
> optimal IPv6 router, than what exists today?
Asic based forwarding engines with ipv6 support are more than a decade
old at this point.
If one looks at an asr9000 or an MX or T that looks like an ipv6 router
to me.
> Glen
>
