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Re: IPv6 mistakes, was: Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark Andrews)
Thu Feb 17 21:20:15 2011
To: Steve Meuse <smeuse@mara.org>
From: Mark Andrews <marka@isc.org>
In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 17 Feb 2011 21:06:22 CDT."
<20110218020622.GA10995@mara.org>
Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2011 13:19:11 +1100
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
In message <20110218020622.GA10995@mara.org>, Steve Meuse writes:
> Mark Andrews expunged (marka@isc.org):
>
> > > An how many of those embedded linux devices are running a 2.4 kernel? Jus
> t lo
> > > ok at xx-wrt as an example. If you have a certain chipset, 2.4 is your on
> ly 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 likel
> y to get upgraded than joe six pack is going to update/patch his windows XP.
Joe 6 pack does upgrade his XP box. It companies that don't. There too
worried about things breaking.
> -Steve
>
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