Re: Bad performance when using IPv4 and IPv6 together

[Rik van Riel <riel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 16 Aug 2001, Ralf Baechle wrote:

> 6bone has been found to survive routing problems in the underlying
> IPv4 structure used to interconnect IPv6 islands rather well so some
> people already (try to ...) rely on it.

I rely on it ;)

At times I have as much as 30% packet loss between two
hosts on ipv4, or the routing table entry in one of the
20 in-between hops is gone completely.

In these situations, ipv6 takes me to the other host
reliably. It's worth it having a partial mesh inside your
pTLA, trust me...

Rik
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