[85720] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Deploying 6to4 outbound routes at the border
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Simon Leinen)
Sun Oct 16 10:49:02 2005
To: North American Noise and Off-topic Gripes <nanog@merit.edu>
From: Simon Leinen <simon@limmat.switch.ch>
In-Reply-To: <20051015032046.GA3175@srv01.cluenet.de> (Daniel Roesen's
message of "Sat, 15 Oct 2005 05:20:46 +0200")
Date: Sun, 16 Oct 2005 16:48:33 +0200
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
Daniel Roesen writes:
> On Fri, Oct 14, 2005 at 10:45:33PM -0400, Todd Vierling wrote:
>> Maybe to start -- but again, what kind of 6to4 traffic level are we
>> expecting yet?
> Peak or average? Think twice before answering. :-)
> I'm told there are 6to4 relays seeing in excess of 100mbps. Not
> bursts. Can you imagine trying to handle 100mbps "internet mix"
> traffic process switched? :-Z Not even talking about the peaks.
Note that not all Cisco routers use process switching for 6to4 tunnel
encap/decap (which is really just IPv6-in-IPv4). Catalyst 6500/7600
OSR with PFC-3 (Sup32/Sup720) do this "in hardware".
--
Simon.
