Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 11:33:23 -0500 (EST) From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> To: James Wyatt <jwyatt@rwsystems.net> Cc: FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: Racoon Problem & Cisco Tunnel Message-ID: <200103131633.LAA73676@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10103130847370.72725-100000@bsdie.rwsystems.net> References: <000801c0ab8b$81d99ca0$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> <Pine.BSF.4.10.10103130847370.72725-100000@bsdie.rwsystems.net>
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<<On Tue, 13 Mar 2001 09:37:23 -0600 (CST), James Wyatt <jwyatt@rwsystems.net> said: > If the world ever decides to jump to IPv6, all the server folks have to > renumber as well. How is this all supposed to happen without massive > outages and downtime? - Jy@ The world will never ``jump to IPv6'', as you put it. Rather, more and more IPv6-capable systems will be deployed, and IS management will gain comfort with the availability of the technology -- particularly once they have cell-phones running it -- until at some point the cost of adopting IPv6 becomes less than the cost of maintaining a twisted, hyper-complex multi-layer-NATted corporate network infrastructure. The main barrier to adoption of IPv6 right now is Cisco. While there is a test release of IOS available which supports IPv6, it will probably be another few years before even a large minority of deployed routers support it. Unlike the similar deployment problem with multicast, IPv6 isn't anything hard -- it really is just IP with longer addresses. (By contrast, global-scale IP multicast is a Hard Problem[tm] which still has yet to be solved.) -GAWollman To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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