IPv6 and CDN's

Sun Nov 28 01:21:03 UTC 2021

On Sat, Nov 27, 2021, 17:36 Owen DeLong via NANOG <nanog at nanog.org> wrote:

> Well, 1.4x faster is a bit of an odd metric. I presume that means that
> connection set up times measured were on average
> 1/1.4 times as long for IPv6 as they were for IPv4, but there are other
> possible interpretations.
>
> So really, that’s a convoluted way of saying it takes 29% less time to set
> up an IPv6 connection than an IPv4 connection on average.
>
> I can believe that is likely in a scenario where one is dealing with IPv4
> NAT overhead.
>

Why isn't this just inconsistent paths between V6 and V4/nat? (Divergent
topologies)
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