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Re: Artificial Juniper SRX limitations preventing IPv6 deployment (and sales)


From: Marco Moock via NANOG <nanog () lists nanog org>
Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2025 12:53:06 +0100

On 06.11.2025 07:12 Vasilenko Eduard wrote:

The issue that 128bits (64+64) are wasted in every packet. Formally,
for "privacy". Content providers are lathing from such form or
privacy. But it is 2% of the internet capacity.

No one cares nowadays. The amount of other crap traffic (scrapers, AI,
spam, DDoS attacks) is a real problem, the additional bits in the
header aren't.
The time of slow dialup connections where every bit matters, is over.
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