[168321] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Experiences with IPv6 and Routing Efficiency
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Saku Ytti)
Sun Jan 19 13:17:56 2014
Date: Sun, 19 Jan 2014 20:17:38 +0200
From: Saku Ytti <saku@ytti.fi>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <52DC10E6.1000400@bogus.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On (2014-01-19 09:52 -0800), joel jaeggli wrote:
> It doesn't make a lot of sense to have device that has a nominal
> capacity of several Tb/s attempt to punt packets up to a control-plane
> processor that's gig-e connected.
You already punt IP options, vast majority of deployments won't see
significant pps for IPV6 EH. As long as you police them to acceptable rate
before punt and you don't share the policer with other punt masks, it is the
right thing to do, blind dropping standard compliant packets not.
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