[ipv6-wg] IPv6 on P2P links
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Gunter Van de Velde (gvandeve)
gvandeve at cisco.com
Thu May 26 18:56:59 CEST 2011
Inline: GV> -----Original Message----- From: ipv6-wg-admin at ripe.net [mailto:ipv6-wg-admin at ripe.net] On Behalf Of Daniele Orlandi Sent: 26 May 2011 18:34 To: ipv6-wg at ripe.net Subject: Re: [ipv6-wg] IPv6 on P2P links On Thursday 26 May 2011 10:07:39 Jasper Jans wrote: > Can anyone give me some real world experience with IPv6 numbering on P2P > links in their network? I've not yet been able to figure out another aspect of prefixes longer than /64. How are TCAMs in hardware routers and routing lookup code going to handle matches longer than 64 bits? GV> it doesn't really matter as those are destinations that are normally not in the data-path, but just in the "testing path", so optimization doesn't really matter for these prefixes for the data-path services. Are ALL vendors putting all the 128 bits in the TCAMs or is there someone (or most?) with reduced match size that implies a second lookup? GV> oh.. I think there is more to it then just TCAM... what about route-convergence preferences etc... However in this case the TCAM is not a big practical issue I believe. Or is the CPU-based algorithm going to be slower if the match is greater than the native CPU word size? That, alone would justify avoiding having prefixes longer than a /64 in the FIB since it would mean reduced PPS throughput for those destinations. GV> important is that host/user stations are on /64 bit length prefixes, the point-2-point's don't really matter actually in that case as they are just transport path and not a routing destination. Is anyone with an insight view of actual lookup method able to enlighten me a bit? G/
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