At 2:37 AM 6/30/95, Tony Li wrote:

The power-off of the last IPv4 network.

What, Tony, are you trying to tell me that we have to get rid of all the dumb routers out there now to get rid of dumb routing? That the Shiva Fastpath will not implement OSPF and cost less than $3000? That old copies of FTP Software's PC code that can't deal with non-octet-aligned subnet masks (let alone supernets) are going to be in use by SOMEBODY as long as there is such a benighted nightmare as an IBM PC? Naw, no way, I simply can't believe that. And by the way, ATM is going to take over the world tomorrow, because we all know that computers are going to stop sporting RS-232-C interfaces Real Soon Now. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= If you're looking to find the key to the Universe, I have some bad news and some good news. The bad news is -- there is no key to the Universe. The good news is -- it has been left unlocked.