2012/3/14 Masataka Ohta <mo...@necom830.hpcl.titech.ac.jp>: < stuff deleted > > For high speed (fixed time) routed look up with 1M entries, SRAM is > cheap at /24 and is fine at /32 but expensive and power consuming > TCAM is required at /48. > > That's one reason why we should stay away from IPv6. > > Masataka Ohta >
I found this bit of research from 2007 ( http://www.cise.ufl.edu/~wlu/papers/tcam.pdf ). It seems to me there are probably more ways to mix and match different types of ram to be able to deal with this beast. james
