[rescue] 128 bits...

[Dave McGuire]

On Friday, February 7, 2003, at 12:48 AM, Jeff Workman wrote:
>>    Eh...I believe routing table lookups and address masking are better
>> off done in specialized hardware.  Perhaps an "IP coprocessor".
>
> Would you gain much by having a 128 bit processor in your routing 
> engine for  ipv6?

   Well, like I said...with table lookups and masking done directly by 
hardware, not necessarily iterative code, things could be much faster.  
I'm fairly certain a lot of higher-end Cisco gear does things this way 
but I'm not positive.

          -Dave

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