IPv6 *is* like AMD [LWN.net]

IPv6 is like AMD

Posted Feb 7, 2011 15:42 UTC (Mon) by rleigh (subscriber, #14622)
In reply to: IPv6 *is* like AMD by tialaramex
Parent article: LCA: IP address exhaustion and the end of the open net

Just for comparison, this is from a machine with native IPv6:

% ping6 ipv6.google.com
PING ipv6.google.com(2a00:1450:8006::63) 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 2a00:1450:8006::63: icmp_seq=1 ttl=56 time=14.0 ms
64 bytes from 2a00:1450:8006::63: icmp_seq=2 ttl=56 time=13.7 ms
64 bytes from 2a00:1450:8006::63: icmp_seq=3 ttl=56 time=13.7 ms
64 bytes from 2a00:1450:8006::63: icmp_seq=4 ttl=56 time=13.8 ms
64 bytes from 2a00:1450:8006::63: icmp_seq=5 ttl=56 time=13.6 ms
64 bytes from 2a00:1450:8006::63: icmp_seq=6 ttl=56 time=13.6 ms
64 bytes from 2a00:1450:8006::63: icmp_seq=7 ttl=56 time=13.8 ms
64 bytes from 2a00:1450:8006::63: icmp_seq=8 ttl=56 time=13.6 ms
64 bytes from 2a00:1450:8006::63: icmp_seq=9 ttl=56 time=13.7 ms
^C
--- ipv6.google.com ping statistics ---
9 packets transmitted, 9 received, 0% packet loss, time 8071ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 13.604/13.768/14.053/0.184 ms

Not too bad!

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