Hi, On Sun, Jun 02, 2013 at 05:49:05PM +0200, Ivan Pepelnjak wrote: > I thought it was urban lore until I started digging into data sheets for > various DC switches covered in my DC Fabrics webinar (yeah, couldn't resist ;) > > All high-speed DC switches use some variant of TCAM-based forwarding. > Most of them have shared TCAM for IPv4 and IPv6 with IPv6 table > size being 1/2 IPv4 table size. Draw your own conclusions.
Insufficient data to draw conclusions. It could be that "forwarding
performance for *all* IPv6 is only half the pps rate as for IPv4" (due
to "alway doing two lookups"), or anything else, or a combination of
that.
Gert Doering
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have you enabled IPv6 on something today...?
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