[99915] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IPv6 routes, was: How Not to Multihome
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (William Herrin)
Mon Oct 8 21:30:01 2007
Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2007 21:21:27 -0400
From: "William Herrin" <herrin-nanog@dirtside.com>
To: "Keegan.Holley@sungard.com" <Keegan.Holley@sungard.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <OF8B9D40EA.3391F2F5-ON8525736E.0083C8DA-8525736F.0000F941@sungard.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On 10/8/07, Keegan.Holley@sungard.com <Keegan.Holley@sungard.com> wrote:
> Wouldn't resources still be an issue. Since the address space is so much
> larger wouldn't the 235k v6 routes take up more than 4 times the router
> memory?
Keegan,
According to Cisco's product feature pages IPv6 routes take up twice
as much space in the TCAM as IPv4 routes. Make of that what you will.
Regards,
Bill Herrin
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