Tim schrieb: > On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 04:47:38PM +0100, Gert Doering wrote: >> - the GSRs do IPv6 in software on some of the older line cards, and in >> hardware on the more recent line cards (I have no GSRs, so I can't say >> for sure which ones are which, but E0 is certainly "software" and E3/E4 >> should be "hardware") > > I've heart from a SE, that only Engine 5 linecards do IPv6 in hardware. > As we have some GSRs in our network (12410/12416) and linecards from > Engine 0 to Engine 5, does somebody has experiences with GSR & IPv6 and > can say which linecards do IPv6 in hardware?
Engine 3 do definitely IPv6 in hardware. We still use some in our network without any problemys. As far as I remember from some throughput tests I did some years ago they forward IPv6 packets more or less in line rate as IPv4. Best regards, Jan _______________________________________________ cisco-nsp mailing list cisco-nsp@puck.nether.net https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/