On Mar 12, 2008, at 1:06 PM, Frank Bulk - iNAME wrote:
Slightly off-topic, but tangentially related that I'll dare to ask.
I'm attending an "Emerging Communications" course where the instructor
stated that there are SOHO routers that natively support IPv6,
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There are a couple of other boxes I noticed recently at Fry's (in the
SF Bay Area) that claimed IPv6 support on the box, but I have no idea
how real those claims are.
Furthermore, he stated that networking equipment companies like
Cisco will
be moving away from IPv4 in 5 years or so. This is the first time
I've
heard this posited -- I had a hard believing that, but he claims it
with
some authority. Anyone hear anything like this? My own opinion is
that
we'll see dual-stack for at least a decade or two to come.
I suspect you should back away slowly from anyone who suggests IPv4 is
going to go away within 5 years.
Regards,
-drc
