[c-nsp] IPv6 and Cat 6500

Phil Mayers p.mayers at imperial.ac.uk
Thu Sep 30 05:42:46 EDT 2010


On 30/09/10 10:17, Saku Ytti wrote:
> On (2010-09-30 10:08 +0200), Lukasz Bromirski wrote:
>
>> Both Sup32 and Sup720 do support IPv6 in hardware, as it's function
>> of PFC to store FIB and forward traffic.
>
> Two things to watch for in EARL7.x.
>
> ACL
>    It can only do /128 lookup, if no L4 lookups are used in any ACL. This is
>    the default way it works. Optionally you can configure it to do L4
>    lookups also, in which case you can only do /88 lookups, not anything
>    which is more specific (128b-16b src port-16b dst port-8b flags)
>
> uRPF
>    Not supported at all.

Worse: accepts the command and punts to CPU as far as I can see. This 
makes me sad... :o(


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