Actually, I seem to recall some postings to the list stating that many of the popular bittorrent clients already do IPv6 if available. So that would seem to be a good recipe for allowing P2P users to prioritize ahead of regular traffic. - S -----Original Message----- From: Niall Donegan [mailto:niall@moybella.net] Sent: Tuesday, October 14, 2008 3:56 PM To: Scott Doty Cc: nanog@merit.edu Subject: Re: spurring transition to ipv6 -- make it faster Scott Doty wrote:
After all, if most p2p traffic is v4, prioritizing ipv6 (as a general concept) should improve the user experience.
How long do you think it will take for the P2P software authors to transition over to IPv6? I'll bet that P2P users will be a lot more likely to use IPv6 over Aunt May checking her email once a day. Niall. -- The virus contained in this message was not detected.