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neeee on May 15, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: RFC 7540 – HTTP2

IPv6 doesn't fix most of the problems with IP, in fact it makes some worse (routing tables are now bigger because of bigger addresses and there can be more of them). If IPv6 actually did attempt to fix issues in IP it might have seen faster adoption.

richardwhiuk on May 15, 2015 [–]

Routing tables will be smaller due to aggregation - that's the major factor driving up IPv4 route tables.

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