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. _______________________________________________ NANOG mailing list https://lists.nanog.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/PQWLH7KFVXLABDK2YRWBIMSC5DJWQ7LR/
