For the old timers

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Tue, Jun 01, 2010 at 10:17:37AM -0400, Jamon Camisso wrote:
> I'm wondering how much IPv6 will make that problem more apparent than
> less. I'm just speculating, but I'd imagine having 4x more data just for
> a simple tcp packet will strain a lot of less developed infrastructure
> around the world.
> 
> Maybe that won't be an issue since having IPv6 support on an uplink kind
> of entails newer equipment. That G20 nations deploy IPv6 and the rest of
> the world has to play catch up on legacy infrastructure.
> 
> I really have no idea though, Robert B., you seem to know more about
> IPv6 infrastructure and (admittedly low) adoption?

IPv6 has 4 times longer addresses.  Not 4 times the data.  Adding a
few more bytes (many probably zero in fact) will not matter, especially
since dial up tends to use ppp header compression (if not full packet
compression).

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Len Sorensen
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