[AusNOG] IPv6

Wed Apr 1 07:59:37 EST 2015

In message <551B05E2.6040507 at agentpoint.com>, Nick Stallman writes:
> 
> 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.

Why are we arguing about the header format of a 20 year old protocol?
Yes, IPv6 packets were first transmitted 20 years ago between
different implementations.  Just enable it.

> 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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>     Err you mean the router must wait for the ENTIRE header?<br>
>     All 40 bytes of it?<br>
>     <br>
>     At 10 gigabits that only takes 32 nanoseconds you know.<br>
>     Hardly the biggest issue.<br>
>     <br>
>     <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 01/04/15 07:30, David Beveridge
>       wrote:<br>
>     </div>
>     <blockquote
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>           <div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Mar 31, 2015 at 11:49 PM,
>             Chris Hurley <span dir="ltr"><<a moz-do-not-send="true"
>                 href="mailto:chris at minopher.net.au" target="_blank">chris at 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>
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