Experiences with IPv6 and Routing Efficiency

Sun Jan 19 04:00:44 UTC 2014

On Sat, Jan 18, 2014 at 4:22 PM, Nick Hilliard <nick at foobar.org> wrote:

> extension headers are a poor idea because it's troublesome to process them
> 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.  Flow
> labels are generally unused (i.e. set to zero by many host stacks).
>

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Mukom Akong T.

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