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Re: legacy /8


From: Christopher Morrow <morrowc.lists () gmail com>
Date: Sun, 4 Apr 2010 16:03:05 -0400

On Sun, Apr 4, 2010 at 2:24 PM, David Conrad <drc () virtualized org> wrote:
On Apr 3, 2010, at 10:46 PM, Michael Dillon wrote:

The fact is that lack of fastpath support doesn't matter until IPv6
traffic levels get high enough to need the fastpath.

Yeah, fortunately, the fact that your router is burning CPU doing IPv6 has no impact on stuff like BGP convergence.

also, for the record, there are parts of this ipv6 internet thing
where ... doing things in the slowpath is no longer feasible.


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