[154040] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IPv6 /64 links (was Re: ipv6 book recommendations?)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Masataka Ohta)
Thu Jun 21 22:37:02 2012
Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2012 11:35:15 +0900
From: Masataka Ohta <mohta@necom830.hpcl.titech.ac.jp>
To: valdis.kletnieks@vt.edu
In-Reply-To: <18112.1340325408@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
valdis.kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
>> Unlike IPv4 with natural boundary of /24, routing table
>> explosion of IPv6 is a serious scalability problem.
>
> Do you have any *realistic* and *actual* reason to suspect that the IPv6
> routing table will "explode" any further than the IPv4 has already?
That's not the point. The problem is that SRAMs scale well but
CAMs do not.
Masataka Ohta
