Oh, I am still on US EST time zone and waking up in the middle of the night in Beijing. Please see in line below.
-----Original Message----- From: ipv6-boun...@ietf.org [mailto:ipv6-boun...@ietf.org] On Behalf Of Ben Jencks Sent: Monday, November 08, 2010 5:56 AM To: Thomas Narten Cc: ipv6@ietf.org Subject: Re: draft-ietf-6man-prefixlen-p2p-00.txt >I'd like to hear from a router vendor on the impact of this on TCAM >design. I'm under the (possibly mistaken) impression that frequently >only the first 64 bits are allocated space in the TCAM. If you need to >route on all 128 bits in hardware, it could halve the number of routes >you can carry. >This has probably already been addressed, but I couldn't find it in >the archives. Speaking as a router vendor, the possibly-mistaken-impression is so not the way IPv6 high-end routers silicon works when the router uses a TCAM. Sorry, I cannot provide any more details on our router implementation, but I can assure this audience that Thomas' belief is correct that IPv6 routing continues to be based on CIDR. Hemant -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPv6 working group mailing list ipv6@ietf.org Administrative Requests: https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipv6 --------------------------------------------------------------------
