[124141] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IP4 Space
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Stewart)
Wed Mar 24 22:15:28 2010
In-Reply-To: <7DFF0D2A-3D26-44B9-A0C7-7C4B5F1FD77E@internode.com.au>
Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2010 19:14:48 -0700
From: Bill Stewart <nonobvious@gmail.com>
To: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
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>> it seems to me that we'll have widespread ipv4 for +10 years at least,
> How many 10 year old pieces of kit do you have on your network?
> Ten years ago we were routing appletalk and IPX. =A0Still doing that now?
Ten years ago I was still telling a few customers that Novell Netware had
supported TCP/IP since the early 90s and it was really time to shut off IPX=
,
and the Appletalk users were at least running over IP, not LocalTalk,
so I didn't have to care much, and the Windows people were probably
already arguing about Active Directory and LDAP and whether to do DNS,
DLSW was Not Dead Yet, and 1/3 of my X.25 customers acknowledged
that it was way obsolete and time to join the 1990s (the other two were
state governments who viewed it as Somebody Else's Emulation Problem.)
The last time I was dealing with high-end Layer 1 access problems was
a couple of years ago, but in addition to normal IPv4 and MPLS,
I had customers running Fiber Channel and other SAN protocols on the WAN.
There'll be enough IPv4 to keep antiques dealers in business for a while ye=
t.
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Thanks; Bill
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