Reply to post: Re: Mapping plan

Internet engineers tear into United Nations' plan to move us all to IPv6

martinusher Silver badge

Re: Mapping plan

>IPv6 isn't a magic bullet, but it is designed to fix these routing issues that affect the core internet,...

I was under the impression that IP6 traffic was supposed to carry its routing information embedded in the packet headers. Is this correct? (I was never much of a fan of v6 because it assumed varying length packet headers which according to my upbringing is not a good idea, it makes routing messy.)

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