[67367] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Are SW upgrades needed in MPLS core networks?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael.Dillon@radianz.com)
Mon Feb 9 05:01:47 2004
To: nanog@merit.edu
From: Michael.Dillon@radianz.com
Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2004 09:59:40 +0000
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
>Just to be sure, my point here is not where the effective IPv6
performance
>suits one needs or not, but wether a router that can forward <amount>
Mpps
>of IPv4/MPLS packets can also forward the same amount of IPv6 packets per
>second.
Wouldn't a network with an MPLS core use 6PE to implement
IPv6 rather than routing v6 natively in the core? In that
case wouldn't the forwarding performance of native v6 be
irrelevant?
--Michael Dillon
