I have found that IPv6 seems to have a much longer round trip delay than IPv4 for just about every site that I have tried. For example, pinging www.rfc-editor.org from here gives me this:
IPv6: rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 589.174/678.001/1109.953/117.776 ms
IPv4: rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 8.346/48.524/130.290/37.593 ms
Also, note that I cannot get an HTTP response from www.rfc-editor.org using
IPv6. The connection is established fine, but the server does not respond
to requests.
This is really the first time that I have had a chance to use IPv6 outside
of a small test environment, and I am quite pleased that it works. In fact,
it is easier than IPv4 due to address autoconfiguration (no DHCP client).
:-)
On Sun, Mar 16, 2003 at 08:26:38PM +0200, Pekka Savola wrote:
> Just FYI..
>
> It's nice to see that IPv6 is working nicely but v4 is not :-)
>
> (DHCP servers are probably dying quite frequently..)
>
> --
> Pekka Savola "You each name yourselves king, yet the
> Netcore Oy kingdom bleeds."
> Systems. Networks. Security. -- George R.R. Martin: A Clash of Kings
>
>
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