Re: [address-policy-wg] 2007-08 New Policy Proposal (Enabling Methods for Reallocation of IPv4 Resources)

[Carlos Friacas cfriacas@localhost]

On Mon, 29 Oct 2007, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote:

> On 29 okt 2007, at 17:47, JORDI PALET MARTINEZ wrote:
>
> > The fact is that there is much more IPv6 traffic that what we believe,
> I'm quickly approaching my posting limit for the day (week?) but I can't 
> resist telling you the following story:
> I recently found myself somewhere where BitTorrent is severely throttled. 
> Although I can download over HTTP at megabytes per second, BitTorrent 
> downloads wouldn't go faster than 10 kilobytes per second.
> Turns out that the newest Azureus (BitTorrent application) supports IPv6. 
> Enabled this and lo and behold: I got about 75 peers, 5 of which were IPv6, 
> the rest IPv4. Of the IPv6 peers, one had a regular IPv6 address, the other 
> four 6to4 addresses. Even though the 70 IPv4 peers could only give me 10 
> kB/s, the 5 IPv6 peers pushed my download well beyond 100 kB/s.
> So under the right circumstances, a little IPv6 can go a long way.
Iljitsch,

This matches with the questions i DIDN'T ask Jordi last week:

p2p ipv6 traffic? but which applications are generating it? MSN?

I was not aware that a "somewhat popular" bittorrent client was doing 
v6...
I remember that some years ago, some people from 6NET and other projects 
approached the guy which developed the protocol and he sort of refused to 
cooperate in the effort of making it v6 compatible. Then, afaik some 
people developed a patch, but of course that didn't reflect into real 
usage... :-(
Cheers,

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