North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: OMB: IPv6 by June 2008
On Tue, Jul 12, 2005 at 09:35:37PM -0400, David Andersen wrote: > samples to squeeze into a low bandwidth channel. Enter IP header > compression, which is shockingly effective at compressing IP headers of > all sorts... if you've dedicated 128 bits for the address, and it's > still just as static as it was in IPv4, it'll compress to just the same > amount. This is an easy technical problem to solve. IP header compression only works well over a link where you have few flows (fewer than the number of slots for compression) so my customers get to save some bandwidth on their access links and I get the privilege of wasting a lot in the core. But I certainly take Iljitsch's point: maybe I'm complaining about VoIP, not about IPv6. -Phil
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