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I mean the latter, but I'm talking about just the silicon, not the complete product produced by (say) a switch vendor, which perhaps explains the difference.
by ajb 15y ago
I mean the latter, but I'm talking about just the silicon, not the complete product produced by (say) a switch vendor, which perhaps explains the difference.
- nnnnnnnn 15y agoIt's disingenuous to refer to unshipped silicon. If it's not available in vendor hardware it's hardly a "software problem." You appear now to be saying "Chips exist, but vendors aren't building them into switches" which is a far cry from your original claim.
- ajb 15y agoNo, that is not what I wrote.
- kylemaxwell 15y agoNo, he's saying "the chips are in the switches, but networking vendors may not have mature support in the operating system". Think Cisco IOS as an example of the software that has to support the protocol in addition to what the silicon can do.
- nnnnnnnn 15y agoThen that is a categorically untrue statement. Perhaps he is thinking of one vendor (or more likely one particular model supplied by one vendor) in particular? In any event, it is absolutely false that "all of the silicon out there" has feature and performance parity with ipv4.