<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Mar 31, 2015 at 11:49 PM, Chris Hurley <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:chris@minopher.net.au" target="_blank">chris@minopher.net.au</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">While I appreciate the horse has well and truly bolted the BIGGEST mistake<br>
in IPv6 was not making it backwardly compatible with IPv4.</blockquote><div><br></div><div>IPv6 is not incompatible with IPv4, both can be run together on the same machine.</div><div>For what it's worth, I think the biggest mistake with IPv6 was putting the destination</div><div>address an the end of the header instead of the start. A router must wait for the </div><div>entire header to be received before it can start switching the packet.</div><div> </div></div></div></div>