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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: IPv6 news
On Fri, 14 Oct 2005, Chris Adams wrote: > > Once upon a time, Christopher L. Morrow <[email protected]> said: > > agreed, it's a measured engineered decision hopefully. backed by financial > > and prudent engineering decisions. that wasn't the tone of the orignial > > comment though, which was: "Yea, I told them to just do it" which is > > tantamount to 'forklift your network you dummies'. > > For some equipment, it still works out to "forklift your network". For > example, our current dialup gear doesn't support IPv6 (and AFAIK no > upgrades are available or planned to add it). There's no reason for us > to replace our dialup gear; the only thing that fails on it is fans (and > we can replace those easily enough with an hour's work of chassis > dis/re-assembly). Dialup isn't going to go away in the near future > either. i suspect there is quite a large amount of gear (type not weight) that will never see v6 through the vendors but still support customers... speedstream anyone? cable-modem anyone? :( there are LOTS of things out there that don't know from v6 :( Thanks for another example though :)
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