[102995] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IPv6 on SOHO routers?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Conrad)
Wed Mar 12 16:53:49 2008
Cc: <nanog@merit.edu>
From: David Conrad <drc@virtualized.org>
To: <frnkblk@iname.com>
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Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2008 13:38:11 -0700
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On Mar 12, 2008, at 1:06 PM, Frank Bulk - iNAME wrote:
> Slightly off-topic, but tangentially related that I'll dare to ask.
>
> I'm attending an "Emerging Communications" course where the instructor
> stated that there are SOHO routers that natively support IPv6,
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>
There are a couple of other boxes I noticed recently at Fry's (in the
SF Bay Area) that claimed IPv6 support on the box, but I have no idea
how real those claims are.
> Furthermore, he stated that networking equipment companies like
> Cisco will
> be moving away from IPv4 in 5 years or so. This is the first time
> I've
> heard this posited -- I had a hard believing that, but he claims it
> with
> some authority. Anyone hear anything like this? My own opinion is
> that
> we'll see dual-stack for at least a decade or two to come.
I suspect you should back away slowly from anyone who suggests IPv4 is
going to go away within 5 years.
Regards,
-drc
