imo one huge benefit is that ipv6 is much easer for hardware to process.. ipv4 headers are messy and change size. ipv6 headers are 40 bytes! routers have less

imo one huge benefit is that ipv6 is much easer for hardware to process.. ipv4 headers are messy and change size. ipv6 headers are 40 bytes! routers have less thinking. this visualisation might help to dive deeper - https://vectree.io/c/ipv6 https://vectree.io/c/ipv6