legacy /8

Sun Apr 4 14:31:25 UTC 2010

> > Do you have an actual example of a vendor, today, charging a higher
> > license fee for IPv6 support?
> 
> Juniper.  If you want to run OSPFv3 on their layer 3 switches, you need
> a quite expensive "advanced" licence.  OSPFv2, on the other hand, is
> included in the base licence.
> 
> Our IPv6 topology is largely based on static routes because of this.
> There's no customers that are willing to pay extra for IPv6 support at
> the moment, hence we cannot justify the extra cost of the licences.  It
> sucks.  I hope Juniper will come to their senses soon.

It used to be considerably worse. As late as May 2009, Juniper charged
$10.000 (list price) for an "IPv6 Support on JunOS" on license (for high
end M/MX/T series), and the same amount for an E series IPv6 license.
Fortunately Juniper seems to have come to their senses here, and these
licenses are now $0.

Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug at nethelp.no