[137663] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IPv6 mistakes, was: Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steve Meuse)
Thu Feb 17 21:06:40 2011
Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2011 21:06:22 -0500
From: Steve Meuse <smeuse@mara.org>
To: Mark Andrews <marka@isc.org>
In-Reply-To: <20110218005739.B2CEDA4A8E8@drugs.dv.isc.org>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
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Mark Andrews expunged (marka@isc.org):
> > 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.
The point is just because it's "running linux" doesn't make it any more likely to get upgraded than joe six pack is going to update/patch his windows XP.
-Steve
