That used to be true, due to a lack of ASIC/FPGA acceleration for IPv6 packets, forcing them to go through the control plane. I would hope that most, if not all vendors now do hardware switching for IPv6 on anything build in the last 10 years.
On Thu, 14 Jul 2022 at 09:16, Juha Saarinen <j...@saarinen.org> wrote: > Anecdotally, I’m hearing that some smaller ISPs don’t run IPv6 on their > networks because it kills performance for their customers. > > Doesn’t seem like the right way to fix the issue, but small budgets etc. > > – > Juha Saarinen > https://twitter.com/juhasaarinen > > On 14/07/2022, at 08:52, Matt Brown <m...@mattb.net.nz> wrote: > > > Globally https://www.google.com/intl/en/ipv6/statistics.html shows steady > growth, and just passed the 40% native IPV6 mark. It's slow but steady > progress given the enormity of the protocol changes introduced and the lack > of backward compatibility. > > However > https://www.google.com/intl/en/ipv6/statistics.html#tab=per-country-ipv6-adoption > does show NZ is lagging the average on only 19% - anecdotally, none of the > 3 ISPs I've used recently for various residential connections have made it > possible to get IPv6 - Starlink did for a few months initially, but then it > disappeared when they moved to their NZ routed ranges :( > > _______________________________________________ > NZNOG mailing list -- nznog@list.waikato.ac.nz > To unsubscribe send an email to nznog-le...@list.waikato.ac.nz >
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