Experiences with IPv6 and Routing Efficiency

Sat Jan 18 16:07:59 UTC 2014

On 18 Jan 2014 09:42, <bmanning at vacation.karoshi.com> wrote:
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>
> please define "efficient" in this context.

Would a routing device process (while forwarding for example) more IPv6
packets than IPv4?

Not a dictionary definition

>
> /bill
>
> On Sat, Jan 18, 2014 at 08:09:58AM +0400, Mukom Akong T. wrote:
> > Hello folks,
> >
> > Does anyone have any experiences or insights to share on how  more (or
> > less) efficient routing is with IPv6? Any specific thoughts with
respect to
> > how the following characteristics help or not with routing efficiency?
> > - fixed header size
> > - Extension header chain
> > - flow labels in header
> > - no intermediate fragmentation
> > - no checksums
> >
> > Thanks in advance.
> >
> > --
> >
> > Mukom Akong T.
> >
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