IPv4 to IPv6 conversion on a load balancer causing rare packet loss
Posted by jpluimers on 2018/11/02
Nice find on not so nice packet conversion: [WayBack] Fun with IPv6 We were investigating packet loss. The loss rate was very low (smaller than 1 of 1000) but as UDP was used, it caused rare but noticeab… – Martin Seeger – Google+
Basically the load balancer could not cope well converting empty IPv4 UDP checksums to IPv6 and back.
Or like Kris mentioned it: [WayBack] Null. In Zahlen: -1., causing a nice set of comments to be posted on short term solutions versus long time forgotten problems.
–jeroen






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