Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2001 01:54:41 -0800 From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com> To: <FreeBSD-chat@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: "Bob Van Valzah" <Bob@Talarian.Com>, "pW" <packetwhore@stargate.net> Subject: RE: Racoon Problem & Cisco Tunnel Message-ID: <006401c0ad35$f4e51660$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> In-Reply-To: <3AAF8F41.59B3F3B@softweyr.com>
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>-----Original Message----- >From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG >[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Wes Peters >No, it's both. Proactive organizations should be implementing both >early rather than late, and anyone selecting network infrastructure >equipment at this time should be buying equipment that is IPv4 and >IPv6 capable. > More marketing FUD. Most networking equipment today runs from flash rom code and if IPv6 ever becomes seriously used then those manufacturers are going to release code updates mighty quick. > >Yes, I certainly would. That's a business asset, and a quite valuable >one. If they have the last open large block on the Internet and they are not using it, and they are percieved as just hanging onto it because they might do something with it in the future, they are going to suffer immense PR damage. Plus that, what your missing is that if they continue to hold onto it, and not give it up, then it forces a move to IPv6 - and once IPv6 is implemented, then the large block becomes completely worthless. It's only an asset if they are using it to generate revenue with, such as if they were going to use it to open a new ISP. Otherwise, it's a liability, and a monsterous one at that. I have a portable class C that I'm not using at the moment because >my ISP, dunderheads that they are, charge 4x the price of the connection >to route a class C. If anyone wants to buy this lovely address, bidding >starts at $50,000. ;^) > I would guess that if you haven't maintained that number in the BGP routing tables, that you will find it very difficult to get it back in now. It's probably worthless unless it can be aggregated with adjacent subnets to make a decently sized supernet. DO you know who the owners are of the adjacent subnets? Ted Mittelstaedt tedm@toybox.placo.com Author of: The FreeBSD Corporate Networker's Guide Book website: http://www.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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