IPv6 Finally gets off the ground

Mon Apr 9 04:04:37 UTC 2007

J. Oquendo wrote:
> "On Thursday, 29 March 2007, a Cisco Systems router, flying
> in low Earth Orbit onboard the UK-DMC satellite built by
> Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL), was successfully
> configured by NASA Glenn Research Center to use IPsec and
> IPv6 technologies in space." 
> 
> http://www.dmcii.com/news.htm
> 
> Its good to know that IPv6 is finally being used along
> with encryption! Albeit in outer space, maybe one day we
> could all catch up with this "out of this world"
> technology that people could now claim is "light years"
> ahead of us.

I'm looking forward to a future where pc104/isa bus based routers figure
prominently in the ip core!

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