On 3/19/22 3:47 PM, Matt Hoppes wrote:
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.
What might those be? And it doesn't seem to be a show stopper for a lot
of very large carriers.
Mike
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
