Re: Optimal IPv6 router

2012-02-06 Thread Daniel Roesen
On Mon, Feb 06, 2012 at 08:23:20PM -0800, Rafael Rodriguez wrote: > You can do the same with Junos (calling a 'generic' policy as a > sub-routine). You cannot pass parameters. Best regards, Daniel -- CLUE-RIPE -- Jabber: d...@cluenet.de -- dr@IRCnet -- PGP: 0xA85C8AA0

Re: Optimal IPv6 router

2012-02-06 Thread Rafael Rodriguez
You can do the same with Junos (calling a 'generic' policy as a sub-routine). Sent from my iPhone On Feb 6, 2012, at 6:18, Leo Bicknell wrote: > In a message written on Mon, Feb 06, 2012 at 08:34:26AM +0100, Daniel Roesen > wrote: >> itself is completely AFI-agnostic - see e.g. IOS/IOS-XE [can

Re: Optimal IPv6 router

2012-02-06 Thread Joel jaeggli
On 2/6/12 06:48 , Glen Kent wrote: > One example that comes to my mind is that a few existing routers > cant do line rate routing for IPv6 traffic as long as the netmask is > < 65. I'm sorry that's bs. It's trivial to partition a cam in order to do /128s in a single lookup. that's actually the w

Re: Optimal IPv6 router

2012-02-06 Thread Glen Kent
On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 1:04 PM, Daniel Roesen wrote: > On Sun, Feb 05, 2012 at 09:07:57PM -0500, valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: >> OK, I'll bite.  What would qualify as a "native IPv6" router? > > Perhaps those which were designed with IPv4+IPv6 in mind from day 1, > both in hardware and software

Re: Optimal IPv6 router

2012-02-06 Thread Leo Bicknell
In a message written on Mon, Feb 06, 2012 at 08:34:26AM +0100, Daniel Roesen wrote: > itself is completely AFI-agnostic - see e.g. IOS/IOS-XE [can't comment > on XR]). IOS-XR is fully AFI-agnostic, as far as I can tell. It also updated the CLI to be consistently "ipv4 ..." or "ipv6 ..." with sim

RE: Optimal IPv6 router

2012-02-06 Thread Leigh Porter
> >> With IPv6 growing, if we were to design a native IPv6 router, with > >> IPv4 functionality thrown in, then is it possible to design a more > >> optimal IPv6 router, than what exists today? > > > > OK, I'll bite.  What would qualify as a "native IPv6" router?  Is > this > > another concept as s

Re: Optimal IPv6 router

2012-02-06 Thread Rubens Kuhl
>> With IPv6 growing, if we were to design a native IPv6 router, with >> IPv4 functionality thrown in, then is it possible to design a more >> optimal IPv6 router, than what exists today? > > OK, I'll bite.  What would qualify as a "native IPv6" router?  Is this > another concept as silly as "hardw

Re: Optimal IPv6 router

2012-02-05 Thread Daniel Roesen
On Sun, Feb 05, 2012 at 09:07:57PM -0500, valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: > OK, I'll bite. What would qualify as a "native IPv6" router? Perhaps those which were designed with IPv4+IPv6 in mind from day 1, both in hardware and software - like Juniper/JUNOS. In contrast to other the gear where IPv6

Re: Optimal IPv6 router

2012-02-05 Thread Masataka Ohta
Glen Kent wrote: > With IPv6 growing, if we were to design a native IPv6 router, with > IPv4 functionality thrown in, then is it possible to design a more > optimal IPv6 router, than what exists today? It depends on what you want routers to do. As I am working on Tbps photonic routers with fiber

Re: Optimal IPv6 router

2012-02-05 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Mon, 06 Feb 2012 06:50:54 +0530, Glen Kent said: > Most routers today are basically IPv4 routers, with IPv6 thrown in. Not sure if this statement is troll bait or flame bate. Probably both. ;) I see Joel has already confirmed my memory that vendors had ASICs doing IPv6 forwarding last century.

Re: Optimal IPv6 router

2012-02-05 Thread Joel jaeggli
On 2/5/12 17:20 , Glen Kent wrote: > Hi, > > Most routers today are basically IPv4 routers, with IPv6 thrown in. > They are however designed keeping IPv4 in mind. > > With IPv6 growing, if we were to design a native IPv6 router, with > IPv4 functionality thrown in, then is it possible to design a