[149493] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Optimal IPv6 router
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Leigh Porter)
Mon Feb 6 08:38:10 2012
From: Leigh Porter <leigh.porter@ukbroadband.com>
To: Rubens Kuhl <rubensk@gmail.com>, Nanog <nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Mon, 6 Feb 2012 13:39:10 +0000
In-Reply-To: <CAGFn2k2XhhHpWT4mav12PA3g7U8ut6VHPQh3BUnxyse9OAmYpQ@mail.gmail.com>
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
> this
> > another concept as silly as "hardware vs software based" routers?
>=20
> 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.
And where half the useful features just don't support IPv6.
Make it support draft-ietf-mpls-ldp-ipv6 and we're away :)
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Leigh Porter
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