[137651] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IPv6 mistakes, was: Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark Andrews)
Thu Feb 17 19:58:09 2011
To: Steve Meuse <smeuse@mara.org>
From: Mark Andrews <marka@isc.org>
In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 17 Feb 2011 15:36:39 CDT."
<20110217203639.GA3702@mara.org>
Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2011 11:57:39 +1100
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
In message <20110217203639.GA3702@mara.org>, Steve Meuse writes:
> George Bonser expunged (gbonser@seven.com):
>
> > Considering the amount of linux-based CPE and other network hardware out
> > there (including some Cisco gear), the extent to which it might be
> > usable today could be surprising.
>
> An how many of those embedded linux devices are running a 2.4 kernel? Just lo
> ok at xx-wrt as an example. If you have a certain chipset, 2.4 is your only o
> ption.
And the work to patch that kernel is minimal if it doesn't already
support it. It would take less time to fix the kernel than to argue
over whether to fix it.
> -Steve
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