[8874] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Outage and IPv6
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alec H. Peterson)
Sat Apr 26 16:13:25 1997
Date: Sat, 26 Apr 1997 16:05:28 -0400
From: "Alec H. Peterson" <ahp@hilander.com>
To: Jim Fleming <JimFleming@Unir.Corp>
Cc: "'nanog@merit.edu'" <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <01BC5247.83B0F7E0@webster.unety.net>; from Jim Fleming on Sat, Apr 26, 1997 at 01:41:15PM -0500
On Sat, Apr 26, 1997 at 01:41:15PM -0500, Jim Fleming wrote:
>
> Has anyone analyzed what impact the recent
> outage had on the IPv6 community...6-bone ?
>
> Since IPv6 is largely tunneling via the IPv4
> network, does a serious "brown-out" of the
> IPv4 network have any impact on the 6-bone
> network ?
I think you just answered your own question, Jim.
>
> If enough of these sort of events occur, will
> this drive more people to IPv6 ? Assuming
> that the IPv6 network would not have seen
> any impact.
What leads you to making that last assumption?
Alec
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