[149489] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Optimal IPv6 router
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rubens Kuhl)
Mon Feb 6 06:08:49 2012
In-Reply-To: <107963.1328494077@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>
Date: Mon, 6 Feb 2012 09:07:58 -0200
From: Rubens Kuhl <rubensk@gmail.com>
To: Nanog <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
>> 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?
>
> OK, I'll bite. =A0What would qualify as a "native IPv6" router? =A0Is thi=
s
> another concept as silly as "hardware vs software based" routers?
Join them and create a router where IPv6 is ASIC-forwarded and IPv4
gets to use a CPU. Market perspectives for such a product are very
shy, but would fit the description.
Rubens
