[182392] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Dual stack IPv6 for IPv4 depletion
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John R. Levine)
Wed Jul 15 21:00:23 2015
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
Date: 15 Jul 2015 21:00:12 -0400
From: "John R. Levine" <johnl@iecc.com>
To: "Joe Maimon" <jmaimon@ttec.com>
In-Reply-To: <55A6F2BD.5010105@ttec.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
> Are you really equating an incremental silent update to remove something
> between one if statement or slightly more and an entire protocol stack that
> when active fundamentally changes the host networking behavior?
Yeah. On the devices I have, there's no practical difference between a
one line update and a complete reload. Either you update the software or
you don't, and mostly you don't. PCs and servers are easy, embedded
routers and printers and the like are not.
R's,
John
