Availability of MPI over inet2 protocol

Kragen Sitaker kragen at pobox.com
Sun Dec 1 01:53:18 PST 2002


Don Becker writes:
> Improve in what way?  IPv6 is slower and more complex.

IIRC, the designers of IPv6 left out the parts of IPv4 that tended to
bottleneck routers, like recalculating header checksums after
decrementing the TTL; they intended to make IPv6 faster than IPv4 on
the same amount of hardware.  I guess you think they failed?

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