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Chapter 11 Configuring SDM Templates
Information About Configuring SDM Templates
The first eight rows in the tables (unicast MAC addresses through security ACEs) represent approximate
hardware boundaries set when a template is selected. If a section of a hardware resource is full, all
processing overflow is sent to the CPU, seriously impacting switch performance. The last row is a
guideline used to calculate hardware resource consumption related to the number of Laye r 2 VLANs on
the switch.
Dual IPv4 and IPv6 SDM Default Template
You can select an SDM template to support IP Version 6 (IPv6) switching. For more information about
IPv6 and how to configure IPv6 routing, see Chapter 41, “Configuring Static IP Unicast Routing.”
This software release does not support Policy-Based Routing (PBR) whe n forwarding IPv6 traffic. The
software supports IPv4 PBR only when the dual-ipv4-and-ipv6 routing template is configured.
The dual IPv4 and IPv6 template allows the switch to be used in dual-stack environments (supporting
both IPv4 and IPv6). Using the dual-stack templates results in less TCAM capacity allowed for each
resource. You should not use this template if you plan to forward only IPv4 traffic.
These SDM templates support IPv4 and IPv6 environments:
Dual IPv4 and IPv6 default template—Supports Layer 2, QoS, and ACLs for IPv4; and Layer 2, IPv6
host, and ACLs for IPv6.
Dual IPv4 and IPv6 routing template—Supports Layer 2, multicast, routing (includin g policy-based
routing), QoS, and ACLs for IPv4; and Layer 2, routing, and ACLs for IPv6.
Note An IPv4 route requires only one TCAM entry. Because of the hardware compression scheme used for
IPv6, an IPv6 route can take more than one TCAM entry, reducing the number of entries forwarded in
hardware. For example, for IPv6 directly connected IP addresses, the desktop template might allow less
than two thousand entries.
Tab l e 11-3 Approximate Feature Resources Allowed by Dual IPv6-IPv6 Templates1
Resource
IPv4-and-IPv6
Default
IPv4-and-IPv6
Routing
Unicast MAC addresses 8 K 1K
IPv4 IGMP groups and multicast routes 0.25 K 0. 5 K
Total IPv4 unicast routes: 02 K
Directly connected IPv4 hosts 01 K
Indirect IPv4 routes 01 K
IPv6 multicast groups 0.375 K 0.625 K
Total IPv6 unicast routes: 01.375 K
Directly connected IPv6 addresses 01 K
Indirect IPv6 unicast routes 00.375 K
IPv4 policy-based routing ACEs 00.125 K
IPv4 or MAC QoS ACEs (total) 0.375 K 0.375 K
IPv4 or MAC security ACEs (total) 0.375 K 0.125 K
IPv6 policy-based routing ACEs200.125 K