By Johna Till Johnson, Network World, 09/19/05

Several folks have written to comment on the 250% increase in overhead I attributed to IPv6 in my previous column on the topic. They're right. The number is overstated, for a rather embarrassing reason (got my bits and bytes confused - spent too long away from a protocol analyzer).

But while my initial figure was clearly incorrect, determining the actual figure was more challenging than either my readers or I had anticipated. More than half who sent in the "right" figure subsequently revised their calculations (including reader Mel Beckman's letter to the editor.