On Tue, 2004-01-13 at 06:50, Michael L Torrie wrote: > The advantages I see of IPv6: > 1. bigger address space > 2. no need for NAT or private address space > 3. packets are self-routing. (hopefully meaning smaller routing tables) > 4. there are fields in the header for doing various kinds of > authenticity and anti-spoofing checks > 5. They can contain existing IPv4 addresses, allowing slow (and I mean > slow) migration to IPv6 using tunnels and gateways
6. Multicast improvements 7. Node autoconfiguration ala DHCP only better > The disadvantages: > 1. poor support from vendors (hardware and software) > 2. increase in complexity > 3. increase in protocol overhead (the IPv6 header is bigger than the > IPv4 header) > 4. requires correct firewalling (by subnet or host), since each ip > address is world addressable I would argue we've just gotten lazy and this is really a disadvantage of networking in general. > 5. during the transition period, there will be islands of IPv6 networks > connected by gateways and tunnels through the IPv4 network. This means > there are few routes between nodes, and the tunnels and gateways could > be bottlenecks. 6. IPSEC is difficult to get right and has slowed development of implementations. Corey ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
