Nathan, Nathan Ward wrote:
(Also posted to NANOG. Apologies if you're sensitive about that sort of thing.)
Sit up and pay attention, even if you don't now run IPv6, or even if you don't ever intend to run IPv6. Your off-net bandwidth is going to increase, unless you put some relays in. As a friend of mine just said to me: "Welcome to your v6-enabled transit network, whether you like it or not ;-)".
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ps. I'm looking at packet dumps of things right now, captured from torrent clients from the last wee while. I'll be rambling about this and pointing at pretty graphs in about a week at APNIC26.
-- Nathan Ward
That'll be interesting. In general I'm sceptical of claims that the sky hereabouts will fall due to P2P traffic, simply because in New Zealand there's a fairly close correlation between bandwidth use and size of bill. And I do believe that influences user behaviour. The existing operation of DHT is, from a topology point of view, already extremely inefficient. I'd seriously be interested in evidence of anything that made any appreciable difference to that in any direction. - Donald Neal -- Donald Neal | "I have indisputable blind faith." Research Officer | - Lt. Giardello WAND | The University of Waikato |