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>> I think you underestimate the performance impact. AFAIK IPv6 does not
>> support the clasical IPv4 fragmentation anymore (intermediate routers
>> won't fragment the packets but drop them).

> Hmm, yes, true, IPv6 does not support fragmentation at all...

It does, but it's done end-to-end, not at intermediate routers.  See
Section 5 of RFC 2460.

                                        Juliusz