240/4

Thu Oct 18 18:07:48 UTC 2007

Joe,

On Oct 18, 2007, at 8:49 AM, Joe Greco wrote:
> The ROI on the move to v6 is immense compared to the ROI on the move
> to v4-240+, which will surely only benefit a few.

I am told by people who have inside knowledge that one of the issues  
they are facing in deploying IPv6 is that an IPv6 stack + IPv4 stack  
have a larger memory footprint that IPv4 alone in devices that have  
essentially zero memory for code left (in fact, they're designed that  
way).  Fixing devices so that they can accept 240/4 is a software fix  
that can be done with a binary patch and no additional memory.  And  
there are a _lot_ of these devices.

Regards,
-drc