North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Scalability issues in the Internet routing system
> > I'd have to say that RFC 3513 is out of touch with reality here, yes. > > As far as I know current routers with hardware based forwarding look > > at the full 128 bits - certainly our Juniper routers do. > > Ours do as well, but essentially, that's because they are internal to > our network. Nobody would need that in the shared DFZ part, there I > agree with Rubens. I agree about that part too. > So although you would need the longer prefixes (right up to /128) in > your routing core, you would not necessarily have to have them in > your edge routers (as long as they don't directly connect to your > core, like Cisco keeps telling us we should do). That's just it - even if you don't need to exchange longer than /64 prefixes with other providers, your routers still need to handle the longer prefixes in hardware (assuming you're using boxes with hardware based forwarding). Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, [email protected]
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