[f-nsp] Turboiron24x or ICX6650 for IPv6 switching

Neil Davidson neil at knd.org
Wed Jan 30 14:22:54 EST 2013


On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 12:14 PM, Nick Hilliard <nick at foobar.org> wrote:
> On 30/01/2013 18:03, David Hubbard wrote:
>> Hi all, is anyone using either a TurboIron 24x or the ICX 6650 in an
>> IPv6 environment?
>
> The TI-24X doesn't do ipv6 and never will. I believe the ICX6650 does,
> although I haven't poked around with them.
>
> 30,000 addresses may mean 30,000 mac addresses.  That's beginning to get
> scarily close to the limit of 32k on the 24X.  I'd be quite careful to lab
> this up before deployment.
>

Currently looking at IPv6 routing on the ICX6650. With version 7.5.0
you can do IPv6 on physical interfaces, but not vlan/ve interfaces.
I'm checking to see if this will change in future versions ... n



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