Re: Warning on enabling ip6 protochain 6

[Guy Harris <guy () alum mit edu>]

On Aug 8, 2011, at 10:56 PM, ramkumar.paranandi () gmail com wrote:

> How much percentage of traffic in real world  scenarios would these kind (ipv6 chain)of packets consist?

It depends on the scenario.  If 50% of the traffic on your network is TCP-over-IPv6 traffic, then 50%. :-)

Or, to put it another way, I doubt I can give you the answer you're probably really looking for, i.e. the answer to 
"how much of a problem will this be?", as it depends on the traffic your network.  How much of it is TCP-over-IPv6 
traffic?  The *rest* of the traffic will be the problem, as that's the traffic that could have been rejected had "ip6 
protochain 6" been implemented in the kernel with e.g. a magic IPv6 protochain BPF instruction, but now has to be 
handed up to userland to be rejected in userland.-
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