[181636] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: ARIN just subdivided their last /17, /18, /19, /20, /21 and /22.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ricky Beam)
Tue Jun 30 00:03:13 2015
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
To: "Lyndon Nerenberg" <lyndon@orthanc.ca>
Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2015 00:03:09 -0400
From: "Ricky Beam" <jfbeam@gmail.com>
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On Sat, 27 Jun 2015 13:23:27 -0400, Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon@orthanc.ca>
wrote:
> IPX ruled the roost, very popularly, for a little while. How long did
> it take to die?
It isn't dead yet, but it's certainly on the endangered list.
> Why did it die?
The death of Novell NetWare (and their transitioned to IP) killed it the
enterprise. Games adopting IP for network play killed it in the home.
Ultimately, it sucks as a WAN protocol, so the internet was built using
this new fangled IP thing.
