[AusNOG] IPv6

[Nick Stallman]

Err you mean the router must wait for the ENTIRE header?
All 40 bytes of it?

At 10 gigabits that only takes 32 nanoseconds you know.
Hardly the biggest issue.

On 01/04/15 07:30, David Beveridge wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 31, 2015 at 11:49 PM, Chris Hurley <chris at minopher.net.au 
> <mailto:chris at minopher.net.au>> wrote:
>
>     While I appreciate the horse has well and truly bolted the BIGGEST
>     mistake
>     in IPv6 was not making it backwardly compatible with IPv4.
>
>
> IPv6 is not incompatible with IPv4, both can be run together on the 
> same machine.
> For what it's worth, I think the biggest mistake with IPv6 was putting 
> the destination
> address an the end of the header instead of the start. A router must 
> wait for the
> entire header to be received before it can start switching the packet.
>
>
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