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Re: Waste will kill ipv6 too


From: Nick Hilliard <nick () foobar org>
Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2017 16:15:28 +0000

Owen DeLong wrote:
fast routers mostly don’t parse those chains.

...unless they need to access the L4 header information in order to
create useful hashes to load balance over LAG or ECMP bundles, or
implement any sort of filtering, or RE / control plane policing.

But outside these corner cases, definitely a minority requirement :-)

Nick


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