| Network Processing Forum (NPF) and IPv6 | |||
| Posted by: Jordi on Monday, October 06, 2003 - 04:47 PM | |||
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The Network Processing Forum (NPF) today announced the availability of the MPLS Forwarding Service Application Programming Interfaces (API) with Diffserv and TE Extensions Implementation Agreement (IA), the IPv6 Unicast Forwarding Service API IA, the Packet Handler API IA and version 2.0 of the Software API Conventions IA.
The IPv6 API describes a vendor-neutral programming interface to configure and manage any IPv6 Forwarding Information Base (FIB). The specification provides an interface to configure and manage address resolution tables and it includes unified and discrete mode versions similar to those found in the IPv4 Forwarding Services API announced earlier this year. |
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| Once these API's are implemented, the performance of the network
processor-based systems executing these functions can easily be measured with
the MPLS Forwarding Benchmark IA or the NPF IP Forwarding Benchmark IA. Both
benchmarks enable design engineers to compare the performance of the various
MPLS and IPv6 Unicast Forwarding Service API implementations with open,
objective and reproducible tests.
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