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Re: from the academic side of the house


From: "Steven M. Bellovin" <smb () cs columbia edu>
Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2007 09:22:14 -0400


On Tue, 24 Apr 2007 09:24:13 -0700
Jim Shankland <nanog () shankland org> wrote:

(2) Getting this kind of throughput seems to depend on a fast
physical layer, plus some link-layer help (jumbo packets), plus
careful TCP tuning to deal with the large bandwidth-delay product.
The IP layer sits between the second and third of those three items.
Is there something about IPv6 vs. IPv4 that specifically improves
perfomance on this kind of test?  If so, what is it?

I wonder if the router forward v6 as fast.


                --Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb


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