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What's the benefit of using IPv6 as transport (as opposed to using IPv4 as transport)?
by valas 13y ago
What's the benefit of using IPv6 as transport (as opposed to using IPv4 as transport)?
- nextweek2 13y agoOne of the big wins you get with IPv6 is that is doesn't allow fragmenting. This means packets will be dropped but that's not a bad thing when you have other layers taking care of retransmission. So routers then don't have to spend a lot of time chopping packets up and can just either shift packets faster or drop them telling the sender to slow down. The other advantage I hope we see enabled is multicast. All these streaming services could massively reduce their bandwidth usage if the Internet allowed multicasts.