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Re: 240/4
From: Joe Greco <jgreco () ns sol net>
Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2007 16:22:13 -0500 (CDT)
Joe, On Oct 18, 2007, at 8:49 AM, Joe Greco wrote:The ROI on the move to v6 is immense compared to the ROI on the move to v4-240+, which will surely only benefit a few.I am told by people who have inside knowledge that one of the issues they are facing in deploying IPv6 is that an IPv6 stack + IPv4 stack have a larger memory footprint that IPv4 alone in devices that have essentially zero memory for code left (in fact, they're designed that way). Fixing devices so that they can accept 240/4 is a software fix that can be done with a binary patch and no additional memory. And there are a _lot_ of these devices.
Sure, I agree there are. How does that number compare to the number of devices which can't or won't be upgraded to IPv4-240+? ... JG -- Joe Greco - sol.net Network Services - Milwaukee, WI - http://www.sol.net "We call it the 'one bite at the apple' rule. Give me one chance [and] then I won't contact you again." - Direct Marketing Ass'n position on e-mail spam(CNN) With 24 million small businesses in the US alone, that's way too many apples.
Current thread:
- RE: 240/4, (continued)
- RE: 240/4 michael.dillon (Oct 18)
- RE: 240/4 (MLC NOTE) Alex Pilosov (Oct 18)
- Re: 240/4 (MLC NOTE) S. Ryan (Oct 19)
- Re: 240/4 Joe Greco (Oct 18)
- Re: 240/4 Vince Fuller (Oct 18)
- Re: 240/4 Joe Greco (Oct 18)
- Re: 240/4 Alain Durand (Oct 18)
- Re: 240/4 Valdis . Kletnieks (Oct 18)
- Re: 240/4 Joe Greco (Oct 18)
- Re: 240/4 David Conrad (Oct 18)
- Re: 240/4 Joe Greco (Oct 18)
- Re: 240/4 David Conrad (Oct 18)
- Re: 240/4 Iljitsch van Beijnum (Oct 19)
- Re: 240/4 Joel Jaeggli (Oct 18)