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Re: Using IPv6 with prefixes shorter than a /64 on a LAN
From: sthaug () nethelp no
Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2011 07:02:30 +0100 (CET)
IPv6 is classless; routers cannot blindly make that assumption for "performance optimization".Blindly, no. However, it's not impractical to implement fast path switching that handles things on /64s and push anything that requires something else to the slow path.
Any vendor who was stupid enough to do *hardware* switching for up to /64 and punted the rest to software would certainly not get any sales from us. 128 bits. No magic. Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug () nethelp no
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