On Sun, Apr 4, 2010 at 7:41 PM, joel jaeggli <joe...@bogus.com> wrote: > On 4/4/2010 5:10 PM, Christopher Morrow wrote: >> >> On Sun, Apr 4, 2010 at 4:32 PM, joel jaeggli<joe...@bogus.com> wrote: >> >>> >>> Last time I checked, some of the state of the art 2004 era silicon I had >>> laying around could forward v6 just fine in hardware. It's not so usefyl >>> due to it's fib being a bit undersized for 330k routes plus v6, but hey, six >>> years is long time. >>> >> >> <cough>4948</cough> (not 6yrs old, but... still forwards v6 in the >> slow-path, weee!) >> > > Yes it does. and the slow path is sloooooooooow on the that switch. but > switches and routers did and do come in colors other than blue.
but, but, but.. then it won't match! and seriously, I can't have another run in with the fashion police. In actual seriousness, my point is that plenty of this sort of gear is in the network, and will be for a time. It's sort of inexcusable that vendors put out gear 5 years ago that didn't do v6 in the fast path... oh well. -chris
