PC based dual IP supported (IPv4-IPv6) router simulation

Depending on the problems of transition over present networks, the progress of IPv6instead of IPv4 will not happen suddenly and both protocols will be together for awhile -maybe forever in some resources-. The routing mechanisms working on IPv4today are supposed to be deficient in near future. The main input to decide the IProuting is IP lookup process which uses IP address to find the related routing unit.This process have to be done with enough speed which will not create a bottleneckfor IP routing job.In this study, a dual routing model has been proposed based on the clue of necessityof routing IPv4 and IPv6 packets together with reasonable cost software andhardware designs, a lookup algorithm which can be core of such design wasinspected and a dual IP supporting routing software was simulated. The performancevalues from simulation running on different platforms were analyzed. As a result, itis concluded that the high performance criteria which is necessary for IP routing andother possible IP based data lookup processes in the future can be achieved.