IP V6 overhead

[Thomas Schaefer]

Am Donnerstag, 28. Februar 2002 18:06 schrieben Sie:
> Hello,
>.... the overhead is 78 bytes (IP, UDP, RTP, L2
> & L1). With IPV6 the overhead will be much larger because of the IP address
> fields.
> So we will reach a situation where the overhead will be much larger than
> the payload and the required bandwidth will be increased.
>
The header size is only 20 Bytes more (twice of ipv4 header). You are right - 
for short packets - the ratio payload/wholepacketsize  is worse.
But in your example: 
160/(160+78)=0,67
160/(160+98)=0,62
I think both the new and the old value are not very nice.

Regards,
Thomas Schäfer