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On 8/30/2011 12:01 PM, Mike Burns wrote:
<blockquote cite="mid:8ED2D34B24014C23AA5F029110C39DD3@mike"
type="cite">buy us enough time to come up with some kind of
backward compatible successor protocol to IPv4?
</blockquote>
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no such thing exists... you cannot magically increase the size of
addresses and be backwards compatible. Even NAT, which didn't touch
the size of an address, isn't backwards compatible and broke plenty
of protocols.<br>
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You want magic or divine intervention... it doesn't exist. Only
plain old hard work will get us to our mundane goals of moving to
ipv6. There's really nothing to be gained by wishing otherwise.<br>
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-lee<br>
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