-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
I use it 8 hours a day, five days a week. Works fine.
It has been supported in Cisco IOS since late 11.x. How long does something have to be around before it isn't "new" anymore? Calling someone who implements IPv6 *now* as cutting or leading edge is ridiculous. No it isn't. Get real, Adam. The support is not out there. Most providers are only just now beginning to dabble with it.
What does provider support have to do with deploying IPv6 on your network? There is zero reason to wait for your provider - in fact, that is a bad idea. When your provider shows up with IPv6 support you won't be ready to exploit it.
I think someone is living in cloud cuckoo land here. You may be lucky in that someone is prepared to resource your requirements, and maybe that infrastructure was built from scratch. Older infrastructures may have all sorts of weird and wonderful kludges which support different things which may or may not be critical to business function, and which may or may not be properly and accurately documented. Many of those who run these have to struggle to get the resources to support the network infrastructure that they have already got, let alone create the network infrastructure they would like to have, and in the current economic environment this is not likely to get any better. IT departments are often very low in the organisational pecking order or frequently very unpopular in the organisation if they are not, so unfortunately tend to get the crumbs from the table and the blame when everything goes pear shaped as a consequence of under-resourcing. The comments are very idealistic, and not really based practicalities of the bigger picture. It would be nice to have a magic wand to make everything better, but these are in short supply. I think anyone designing a new (or a fundamental update of a) commercial network infrastructure around IPv4 is probably not entirely sane, but the growth of IPv6 is mainly going to be determined by the rate of update of physical infrastructure. This process is not going be fast. On the other hand there are few (if any) benefits for IPv6 deployment on home networks, and it is surprising how much home kit is state of the Ark. - -- ============================================================================== I have always wished that my computer would be as easy to use as my telephone. My wish has come true. I no longer know how to use my telephone. Bjarne Stroustrup ============================================================================== -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with SUSE - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkrkPhYACgkQasN0sSnLmgL+tgCg2BTh/2dHM794kg9vgZaniHhD bTUAoLsrGaPWqBRrHr3XE0nU6zVF8fgx =LP5H -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org