comp.os.linux.networking

ianbrn@gmail.com wrote:
>> like better performance
>
> Can you elaborate a bit ? (except of eliminating the need for NAT).
> There is something which I do not understand:
> For routers in the internet - is the kernel routing table more
> efficient than in IPV4?
> As far as I understand, the routing is the same as in IPV4 (namely, we
> find the route using
> a prefix in IPV6 whrereas we have the subnet in IPv4).
>
> I will appreciate if someone can elaborate on this.
> Regards,
> Ian
>

IPV6 supports larger datagrams which will result in a (slightly) higher
troughput on highspeed networks (due to less overhead).