nanog mailing list archives

Re: Experiences with IPv6 and Routing Efficiency


From: "Mukom Akong T." <mukom.tamon () gmail com>
Date: Sun, 19 Jan 2014 08:00:44 +0400

On Sat, Jan 18, 2014 at 4:22 PM, Nick Hilliard <nick () foobar org> wrote:

extension headers are a poor idea because it's troublesome to process them
on cheap hardware.



Have you found them to be more troublesome to process than IPv4 options
are/were?



Because of this, packets with any sort of extension
headers are routinely dropped by a large percentage of organisations.  Flow
labels are generally unused (i.e. set to zero by many host stacks).





-- 

Mukom Akong T.

http://about.me/perfexcellence |  twitter: @perfexcellent
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
“When you work, you are the FLUTE through whose lungs the whispering of the
hours turns to MUSIC" - Kahlil Gibran
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------


Current thread: