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RE: Readiness for IPV6
- From: Phil Rosenthal
- Date: Mon Jul 08 20:35:24 2002
-----Original Message-----
From: Alif The Terrible [mailto:measl@mfn.org]
On Mon, 8 Jul 2002, Phil Rosenthal wrote:
> As far as I can tell, neither Foundry Bigiron, nor Cisco 65xx support
> IPV6 (I could be wrong).
>
> While they probably aren't the most popular routers, they are very
> popular, and im sure plenty of cisco's smaller routers don't support
> it either.
I am on the 6bone using a combination of 2600 and Zebras. The 2600
doesn't do BGP6 yet, although it does RIP6 just fine. It's getting
there...
> How ready is the 'net to transit to IPV6 in the future?
Define "future". It's coming, although slowly. But then, why hurry?
The "emergency" was just another skyfall...
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Yes, I don't think we need it 'right now'. My concern is that at this
point many companies are still buying routers that as of today have no
support for IPv6. Given that a BigIron/65xx is mostly hardware
forwarding, I speculate that they wont be able to support IPv6 with a
trivial software upgrade (at least not at the same performance level).
So, is someone buying such equipment today 'wasting money' since it will
be completely obsolete with the onset of mass IPv6 roll-out likely in
2004 or 2005?
--Phil
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