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Re: IPv6 prefixes longer then /64: are they possible in DOCSIS

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu)
Wed Nov 30 22:13:54 2011

To: Ray Soucy <rps@maine.edu>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 30 Nov 2011 19:19:51 EST."
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From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2011 22:10:19 -0500
Cc: Bill Stewart <nonobvious@gmail.com>, nanog@nanog.org
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On Wed, 30 Nov 2011 19:19:51 EST, Ray Soucy said:

> There is a lot of talk about "buggy" systems that are unable to handle
> prefixes longer than 64; but I've yet to encounter one.  I imagine if
> I did it would be treated as a bug and fixed. 

What year did Cisco first release IOS?
What year did Cisco finally stamp the last vestiges of class A/B/C out of IOS?

That's how many years it will take to get rid of the last buggy IPv6 that won't
do a 64+ prefix.

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