[c-nsp] 4948 IPv6 Throughput

[Harald Firing Karlsen]

Seth Mattinen wrote:
> Marco van den Bovenkamp wrote:
>   
>> Yes, it means 'It can't really do it, but we pretend it can'
>>     
>
>
> I figured as much.
Well, what exactly do you want to know? It means the switch punts all 
IPv6-packets destined for another prefix to the CPU rendering it quite 
useless for forwarding IPv6 packets, but it will probably work fine with 
IPv6 for management (telnet, snmp, etc).

If you want performance numbers my bet is you won't be able to push more 
than about 75-100Mbps under ideal conditions (all 1500B or 9KB packets), 
but it all depends on the traffic. It is impossible to predict the 
performance of a switch doing forwarding in software.

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Harald Firing Karlsen