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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).
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- Experiences with IPv6 and Routing Efficiency Mukom Akong T. (Jan 17)
- Re: Experiences with IPv6 and Routing Efficiency Nick Hilliard (Jan 18)
- Re: Experiences with IPv6 and Routing Efficiency Saku Ytti (Jan 18)
- Re: Experiences with IPv6 and Routing Efficiency Mukom Akong T. (Jan 18)
- Re: Experiences with IPv6 and Routing Efficiency Nick Hilliard (Jan 19)
- Re: Experiences with IPv6 and Routing Efficiency Mukom Akong T. (Jan 19)
- Re: Experiences with IPv6 and Routing Efficiency Saku Ytti (Jan 19)
- Re: Experiences with IPv6 and Routing Efficiency Saku Ytti (Jan 18)
- Re: Experiences with IPv6 and Routing Efficiency Nick Hilliard (Jan 18)
- Re: Experiences with IPv6 and Routing Efficiency Mukom Akong T. (Jan 18)
- Re: Experiences with IPv6 and Routing Efficiency Frank Habicht (Jan 18)
- Re: Experiences with IPv6 and Routing Efficiency Owen DeLong (Jan 21)
- Re: Experiences with IPv6 and Routing Efficiency Frank Habicht (Jan 21)
- Re: Experiences with IPv6 and Routing Efficiency Owen DeLong (Jan 21)
- Re: Experiences with IPv6 and Routing Efficiency Nick Hilliard (Jan 19)
- Re: Experiences with IPv6 and Routing Efficiency Saku Ytti (Jan 19)
- Re: Experiences with IPv6 and Routing Efficiency joel jaeggli (Jan 19)
- Re: Experiences with IPv6 and Routing Efficiency Saku Ytti (Jan 19)
- Re: Experiences with IPv6 and Routing Efficiency Mark Tinka (Jan 19)
- Re: Experiences with IPv6 and Routing Efficiency Mukom Akong T. (Jan 18)