IPv6 day and tunnels

Templin, Fred L Fred.L.Templin at boeing.com
Tue Jun 12 17:19:39 UTC 2012


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Masataka Ohta [mailto:mohta at necom830.hpcl.titech.ac.jp]
> Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2012 4:47 AM
> To: Templin, Fred L
> Cc: Owen DeLong; nanog at nanog.org
> Subject: Re: IPv6 day and tunnels
> 
> Templin, Fred L wrote:
> 
> > If you wish, you can also consider Alternate 3 for 9kB:
> > 72us at 1Gbps, 7.2us at 10Gbps, .72us at 100Gbps, .072us at 1Tbps.
> 
> So?
> 
> Have you learned enough about Moore's law that, at 10Gbps
> era, 72us of delay is often significant?

I frankly haven't thought about it any further. You say
1280+ belongs in ITU, and I say 1280- belongs in ATM.
Larger packets means fewer interrupts and fewer packets
in flight, which is good Moore's law or no. Accommodation
of MTU diversity is what matters.

Fred
fred.l.templin at boeing.com

> 						Masataka Ohta




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