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Re: from the academic side of the house
- From: Steven M. Bellovin
- Date: Wed Apr 25 09:24:07 2007
On Tue, 24 Apr 2007 09:24:13 -0700
Jim Shankland <nanog@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> (2) Getting this kind of throughput seems to depend on a fast
> physical layer, plus some link-layer help (jumbo packets), plus
> careful TCP tuning to deal with the large bandwidth-delay product.
> The IP layer sits between the second and third of those three items.
> Is there something about IPv6 vs. IPv4 that specifically improves
> perfomance on this kind of test? If so, what is it?
I wonder if the router forward v6 as fast.
--Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb
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