Dual stack IPv6 for IPv4 depletion

John R. Levine johnl at iecc.com
Thu Jul 16 01:00:12 UTC 2015


> Are you really equating an incremental silent update to remove something 
> between one if statement or slightly more and an entire protocol stack that 
> when active fundamentally changes the host networking behavior?

Yeah.  On the devices I have, there's no practical difference between a 
one line update and a complete reload.  Either you update the software or 
you don't, and mostly you don't.  PCs and servers are easy, embedded 
routers and printers and the like are not.

R's,
John



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