18 Jan
2014
18 Jan
'14
7:22 a.m.
On 18/01/2014 04:09, Mukom Akong T. wrote:
Does anyone have any experiences or insights to share on how more (or less) efficient routing is with IPv6? Any specific thoughts with respect to how the following characteristics help or not with routing efficiency? - fixed header size - Extension header chain - flow labels in header - no intermediate fragmentation - no checksums
extension headers are a poor idea because it's troublesome to process them on cheap hardware. Because of this, packets with any sort of extension headers are routinely dropped by a large percentage of organisations. Flow labels are generally unused (i.e. set to zero by many host stacks). Nick