[67245] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Are SW upgrades needed in MPLS core networks?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Randy Bush)
Fri Feb 6 12:21:00 2004
From: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
To: "Rubens Kuhl Jr." <rubens@email.com>
Cc: "Pekka Savola" <pekkas@netcore.fi>, <nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2004 12:20:30 -0500 (EST)
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
>> 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;
we call that crappy hardware
randy
