17 Feb
2011
17 Feb
'11
8:47 p.m.
But way way way more time to deploy the patched kernel than to
forklift
the devices with IPv6 capable ones which don't require patching the kernel, either.
The kernel patch is, at best, an expensive stop gap. At worst, it is a counter productive waste of time. At best it's slightly short of break-even. At worst, it's a huge $negative.
Owen
I don't think anyone was proposing it as an alternative to v6. It is more along the lines of keeping the existing v4 net working as people migrate over. Freeing up WAN IPs can make them available for v6 migration purposes. The ironic thing about v6 is that it will require some additional v4 addresses during the migration period.