[AusNOG] IPv6

[Kristoffer Sheather]

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> On 1 Apr 2015, at 7:38 am, Nick Stallman <nick at agentpoint.com> wrote:
> 
> 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> 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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