PERFORMANCE EVALUATION OF LAYER 4 SWITCHING IN IPv6 VERSUS IPv4
Daniel Zinca, Virgil Dobrotă, Cristian Mihai Vancea · 2000
Abstract: This paper is focused on a Layer 4 switching experiments of IPv6 over Fast Ethernet, running under Windows 2000 Professional. Prior to our studies on IPv4 over ATM with TCP relaying, firstly introduced at IEEE LANMAN’99, we are trying to evaluate the performances at the interface between the applications and the nonblocking stream-oriented sockets in TCP/IP. The first major objective is to get consistent results for a IPv6 versus IPv4 debate, even the implementation phase of this new version of the Internet Protocol is under progress. The second objective is to propose a method for measuring the round-trip-time RTT at the Application Layer. It will provide 1 nanosecond- accuracy, that is requested by the new technologies such as Gigabit Ethernet.