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Re: IPv6 traffic percentages?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Randy Bush)
Thu Jan 21 17:33:53 2016

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From: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
To: Job Snijders <job@instituut.net>
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> With this I meant that I can measure something, but only within a subset
> of the entire path a packet might traverse.

considering your original hypothesis was about length of paths, this
seems a kind of dead end.  you might get a modest improvement by turning
off hot potato :)

> so not end-to-end

which is the problem

> And what might be true for us might not be true for others.

yes.  but if it actually measured what we wanted, it would be a useful
measurement.  but it doesn't.

randy

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