6to4 relay and Teredo relay load - Bittorrent

Rémi Denis-Courmont rdenis at simphalempin.com
Sat Oct 13 19:11:05 CEST 2007


Le Saturday 13 October 2007 19:07:03 james woodyatt, vous avez écrit :
> On Oct 13, 2007, at 02:35, Jeroen Massar wrote:
> > Be happy that they already have IPv6 implemented, BT might actually be
> > one of the few things that might generate lots of traffic on IPv6.
>
> Highly unlikely.  Ubiquitous IPv6 stateful packet filters that behave
> the same way as the filters in IPv4/NAT gateways will give BitTorrent
> users the same hassles on IPv6 as they currently endure on IPv4/NAT.
> The incentive for BitTorrent users to migrate to IPv4 simply isn't
> there unless they're willing to turn off those filters.

Precisely not if they use 6to4 and Teredo à la Windows way of doing unmanaged 
IPv6 transition.

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