It has "features" which are at a minimum problematic and at a maximum
show stoppers for network operators.
IPv6 seems like it was designed to be a private network communication
stack, and how an ISP would use and distribute it was a second though.
On 3/19/22 5:29 PM, Michael Thomas wrote:
So out of the current discussions a lot of people have claimed that ipv6
is bloated or suffers from second system syndrome, etc. So I decided to
look at a linux kernel (HEAD I assume) and look at the differences
between the v6 and v4 directories. I just crudely did a line count as a
quick measure:
ipv6: 68k lines
ipv4: 97k lines
ipv4 looks to have the tcp and udp implementations (35k) so backing that
out it is about 62k lines. That's pretty comparable. Linux has full
routing capability so the kernel implements it for both.
So I'm just not getting where this "bloat" is. 10% growth for a second
system syndrome seems almost miraculously good, imo.
What am i missing? This is in complete agreement with my intuition 30
years ago that it was no big deal, at least from a software standpoint.
Mike
