[67246] 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 13:06:41 2004
Reply-To: "Rubens Kuhl Jr." <rubens@email.com>
From: "Rubens Kuhl Jr." <rubens@email.com>
To: "Randy Bush" <randy@psg.com>
Cc: <nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2004 16:05:52 -0200
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
Based on such point of view, non-crappy hardware would be: (blank) and
crappy hardware would be (blank), could you fill the blanks ?
Rubens
