Over-utilisation of v6 neighbour slots

Daniel Roesen dr at cluenet.de
Thu Oct 24 15:27:32 CEST 2013


On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 03:14:52PM +0200, Martin Millnert wrote:
> > Anyway, the users will have to pay for that. Too bad users of !AAPL
> > have to subsidize those decisions. Time for an AAPL user NAT tax? :)
> 
> Interesting idea.  Put AAPL-OUI's IPv4-traffic in lousy-queue in the
> BNG? :}

Nah. The problem is that the AFTR doesn't see Ethernet MACs, so you
cannot really distinguish AAPL traffic from others. Otherwise you could
delay SYNs from AAPL devices by a certain amount.

> Or generally, help IPv6 out a little by adding general
> IPv4-(latency)-tax?

That would punish the innocent majority.

Anyway, we had this discussion before:
http://lists.cluenet.de/pipermail/ipv6-ops/2012-June/007060.html

Best regards,
Daniel

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