[168309] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Experiences with IPv6 and Routing Efficiency
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mukom Akong T.)
Sat Jan 18 23:01:41 2014
In-Reply-To: <52DA71F0.50306@foobar.org>
From: "Mukom Akong T." <mukom.tamon@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 19 Jan 2014 08:00:44 +0400
To: Nick Hilliard <nick@foobar.org>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Sat, Jan 18, 2014 at 4:22 PM, Nick Hilliard <nick@foobar.org> wrote:
> extension headers are a poor idea because it's troublesome to process the=
m
> on cheap hardware.
>
Have you found them to be more troublesome to process than IPv4 options
are/were?
> Because of this, packets with any sort of extension
> headers are routinely dropped by a large percentage of organisations. Fl=
ow
> labels are generally unused (i.e. set to zero by many host stacks).
>
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Mukom Akong T.
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