Jim,
I agree with your assessment. It is essentially the way I have
integrated IPv6 into an IPv4 system. One point to keep in mind though
is how to support site-scoped addresses in this model. The route table
needs expansion in order to incorporate the zone IDs in the lookup.
Regards,
Brian
"Bound, Jim" wrote:
>
> Its really up to the engineering team for that implementation. I would integrate v4
>and v6 and duplicate as little as possible. At least all data structures so the
>algorithm for update/replace/delete was the same function module and not duplicated
>once for tcp and once for udp and yet again for SCTP. Then there is the emerging
>RDMA the router might want to use for storage. Treating all addresses as 16bytes (v4
>and v6) works and will perform. Also all the traffic shaping, classification, et al
>on hardware would make the hardware engineers job a lot easier and thats a
>performance win too to support both address types.
>
> regards,
> /jim
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Murugan KAT [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2002 2:15 AM
> > To: 'IPng List'
> > Subject: Dual stack routers
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Murugan KAT
> > Sent: Tuesday, 19 March 2002 12:07 AM
> > To: 'IPng List'
> > Subject: RE: Requirements for 'O' flag (was Re: IPv6 working group
> > agendafor Minneapolis IETF)
> >
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > Regarding Dual Stack Router implementation should a router maintain 2
> > routing tables, one for V4 and other for V6. What about the
> > routing stacks?
> > Should there be 2 instances of a routing protocol (BGP, OSPF etc.,) ?
> >
> > What is the general approach?
> >
> >
> > Thanks,
> > KAT
> >
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