sethm at rollernet
Nov 7, 2009, 12:54 AM
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Harald Firing Karlsen wrote:
> Seth Mattinen wrote:
>> Marco van den Bovenkamp wrote:
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>>> Yes, it means 'It can't really do it, but we pretend it can'
>>>
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>> I figured as much.
> Well, what exactly do you want to know? It means the switch punts all
> IPv6-packets destined for another prefix to the CPU rendering it quite
> useless for forwarding IPv6 packets, but it will probably work fine with
> IPv6 for management (telnet, snmp, etc).
>
> If you want performance numbers my bet is you won't be able to push more
> than about 75-100Mbps under ideal conditions (all 1500B or 9KB packets),
> but it all depends on the traffic. It is impossible to predict the
> performance of a switch doing forwarding in software.
>
General forwarding, access lists, etc. Anything you would do with IPv4
right now but in a dual-stack network where things prefer IPv6 first.
I'm using 3750's and their TCAM space for v6 stuffs is somewhat tiny.
~Seth
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