[c-nsp] IPv6 and Cat 6500

Lukasz Bromirski lukasz at bromirski.net
Thu Sep 30 04:08:19 EDT 2010


On 2010-09-30 05:41, Dale W. Carder wrote:

> Sup2 would implement IPv6 routing (if it does at all) in software.
> That might be ok for test purposes, but not appreciable workloads.
> Otherwise, you would want a sup720.

Sup2 will forward IPv6 in software with performance around 200kpps
maximum.

Both Sup32 and Sup720 do support IPv6 in hardware, as it's function
of PFC to store FIB and forward traffic.

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