On 07.11.2025 10:09 Saku Ytti via NANOG wrote:

> On Thu, 6 Nov 2025 at 19:52, nanog--- via NANOG
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> > So you use header compression on all your links, right? No sense
> > reducing your 1Gbps main uplink to 0.98Gbps. The checksum (removed
> > in v6)  is already 5% of each IP packet header. Speaking of headers
> > I take it you're using SLIP instead of Ethernet? And you avoid TLS
> > like the plague? I hope you replaced your 15W LED bulbs with 14.7W
> > bulbs as well - your finance department will thank you. This is
> > asinine.  
> 
> IPv6 is kind of riddled with these changes for sake of change, which
> just made things worse.
> 
> - removing checksum (no way to know when LSR/L2 transit has broken
> memory, mangling frames)

UDP and TCP have checksums.
Other applications have signature mechanisms to verify the data, e.g.
gpg, certificates etc.
IPsec exists which also provides such mechanisms if needed.

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