From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff Garzik Subject: Re: Kernel 2.6 IPV6 Busted Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2005 14:58:40 -0500 Message-ID: <42222670.3090002@pobox.com> References: <200502270928.44402.Info@Quantum-Sci.com> <200502271220.06560.Info@quantum-sci.com> <42221897.4000704@pobox.com> <200502271310.59682.Info@quantum-sci.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@oss.sgi.com To: Quantum Scientific In-Reply-To: <200502271310.59682.Info@quantum-sci.com> Sender: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com Errors-to: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org Quantum Scientific wrote: > On Sunday 27 February 2005 12:59, Jeff Garzik wrote: > >>Connection tracking doesn't scale. It's impossible to hash the entire >>Internet. > > > I have read this. > > And I've seen inferences that IPV6 takes care of this problem somehow > automatically. But no one seems to know how. The solution is to not use connection tracking. You don't want to break the end-to-end connection model that founded the Internet. Jeff