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One 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 l
by nextweek2 13y ago
One 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.