[100156] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: 240/4
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joe Greco)
Thu Oct 18 17:48:06 2007
From: Joe Greco <jgreco@ns.sol.net>
To: drc@virtualized.org (David Conrad)
Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2007 16:22:13 -0500 (CDT)
Cc: nanog@merit.edu (nanog list)
In-Reply-To: <8CAA0909-6435-4678-9097-2DF6B5A29EFE@virtualized.org> from "David Conrad" at Oct 18, 2007 12:07:48 PM
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
> Joe,
> On Oct 18, 2007, at 8:49 AM, Joe Greco wrote:
> > The ROI on the move to v6 is immense compared to the ROI on the move
> > to v4-240+, which will surely only benefit a few.
>
> I am told by people who have inside knowledge that one of the issues
> they are facing in deploying IPv6 is that an IPv6 stack + IPv4 stack
> have a larger memory footprint that IPv4 alone in devices that have
> essentially zero memory for code left (in fact, they're designed that
> way). Fixing devices so that they can accept 240/4 is a software fix
> that can be done with a binary patch and no additional memory. And
> there are a _lot_ of these devices.
Sure, I agree there are. How does that number compare to the number of
devices which can't or won't be upgraded to IPv4-240+?
... JG
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Joe Greco - sol.net Network Services - Milwaukee, WI - http://www.sol.net
"We call it the 'one bite at the apple' rule. Give me one chance [and] then I
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With 24 million small businesses in the US alone, that's way too many apples.
