[67244] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Are SW upgrades needed in MPLS core networks?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rubens Kuhl Jr.)
Fri Feb 6 11:58:53 2004
Reply-To: "Rubens Kuhl Jr." <rubens@email.com>
From: "Rubens Kuhl Jr." <rubens@email.com>
To: "Pekka Savola" <pekkas@netcore.fi>, <nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2004 14:58:04 -0200
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
----- Original Message -----
> Based on the results it seems to be easy to conclude that about the
> only reason to put IPv6 over [v4 over] MPLS on the networks (rather
> than directly on top of the physical infrastructure) is due to the
> other reason, because some vendors have sold crappy hardware which
> does not support IPv6, or does not offer sufficiently good IPv6
> performance.
Even hardware with good IPv6 performance seems to forward at half the rate
of IPv4/MPLS packets; may be accelerated forwarding by tag switching, the
idea that originated MPLS, is a good thing ?
Rubens
