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Re: Deploying 6to4 outbound routes at the border

  • From: Todd Vierling
  • Date: Sun Oct 16 16:50:03 2005 
On Sun, 16 Oct 2005, Simon Leinen wrote:

> Note that not all Cisco routers use process switching for 6to4 tunnel
> encap/decap (which is really just IPv6-in-IPv4).  Catalyst 6500/7600
> OSR with PFC-3 (Sup32/Sup720) do this "in hardware".

And for dual-stack organizations using these at the borders, deploying a
local-only 6to4 outbound relay should be easy, right?

(The fact that transits should really be providing 6to4 to their downstreams
notwithstanding -- it would be faster at the org's border, but if transits
collectively offered 2002::/16 as standard practice, it may not be such a
big deal.)

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