HI, On Wed, Dec 05, 2018 at 03:53:35PM +0100, Ole Troan wrote: > > Chained EHs are a relict from a time when everybody was nice and > > cooperative, bandwith was sparse, routers used CPUs to forward packets, > > and money came from governments to research networks in huge amounts. [..] > This is the exact reason we have layering in the Internet protocols. > IPv6 routers are not meant to parse further into packets then the IPv6 header > (with one exception (1)). > > That network devices find it hard to parse deep into user???s traffic is a > feature. > I find the argument that we should then change upper layer protocols to > accommodate that, hard to digest.
Ole, you've worked for a vendor long enough, and understand terms like
"rate limiting" and "hardware".
Please.
Gert Doering
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have you enabled IPv6 on something today...?
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