[99775] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Creating demand for IPv6, and saving the planet
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tim Franklin)
Thu Oct 4 04:51:29 2007
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0710032238060.22829-100000@ruby.he.net>
Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2007 09:42:39 +0100 (BST)
From: "Tim Franklin" <tim@pelican.org>
To: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Thu, October 4, 2007 6:49 am, Mike Leber wrote:
> As the data at http://bgp.he.net/ipv6-progress-report.cgi shows for the
> IPv6 and IPv4 nameserver tests, some of the time IPv6 connectivity is
> *faster* than IPv4 connectivity (66 out of 264 test cases), because of
> network topology differences due to different peering and transit
> relationships between IPv4 and IPv6.
Just as a odd data point, I see this for the only IPv6 test-bed I have
available now, including tunnels.
Home DSL (UK) -> EU tunnel broker -> IPv6 cloud -> US tunnel broker ->
hosted server (California) is consistently 10-20ms lower than home -> IPv4
upstream -> IPv4 cloud -> server.
Regards,
Tim.
