On Wed, 5 Aug 2009, Margaret Wasserman wrote:
Do you really believe that enough IPv6 routers have shipped with
this sort of ECMP behavior in _hardware_ that we need to consider
that legacy deployment? I'm somewhat skeptical that this could be
the case... If we're going to make design compromises to deal with
currently-deployed hardware, I'd like to see some evidence that this
hardware actually exists in numbers that are worth considering.
FWIW, Juniper docs say the following. Not sure what else they could
do in hardware or what are the caveats.
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By default, IP version 6 (IPv6) packets are automatically
load-balanced based on the following Layer 3 and Layer 4 information:
* Source IP address
* Destination IP address
* Protocol
* Source port number
* Destination port number
* Incoming interface index
* Traffic class
http://www.juniper.net/techpubs/en_US/junos9.5/information-products/topic-collections/config-guide-policy/policy-configuring-per-packet-load-balancing.html
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