On Thu, 06 Nov 2025 18:58:10 +0100 nanog--- via NANOG <[email protected]> wrote:
> fun fact I forgot to mention: if you use ipv6 on cellphone > connections, your site loads more than 2% faster and uses less than > 98% as much electricity, due to avoiding the expensive and > computation-hungry NAT process itself, as well as not needing to be > physically routed to that big centralised server and back. So if you > care about 2%, you'll use IPv6. NAT is definitely not "computation-hungry" anymore - In many modern stacks there's hardly any penalty for NAT vs not. And by modern I mean "almost anything written after the mid 1990s" "uses less than 98% as much electricity" so it uses 97% as much as ipv4? At 1500 MTU? Does that at all sound right to anyone? "Hey we increased the header so you get reduced data payload, thus taking more packets to do the same work" doesnt really sound like an electrical savings to me. _______________________________________________ NANOG mailing list https://lists.nanog.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/BSXRE26I7YTQVM6TVEVLZPODVYZYAJV5/
