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From: "Lewis G Rosenthal" <os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com> Full Headers
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Subject: Re: [OS2Wireless] NetWork World: IPv6 D-Day is coming up fast
Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2007 17:23:01 -0400
To: "OS/2 Wireless Users Mailing List" <os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com>

On 06/29/07 12:37 pm, Dave Saville thus wrote :
On Fri, 29 Jun 2007 10:42:41 -0400, Lewis G Rosenthal wrote:

  
This pretty much underscores our long term need for an updated IP stack which is IPv6-aware...:

http://tinyurl.com/2ax3xr
    
Stack yes, what about the NIC's?

  
(Big job...finally got a break this afternoon...) Do you have NICs which are old enough to *not* support 128bit  addressing? I would have to look closely at some clients' offices (I have a few mail and web servers out there running on rather old Compaq server hardware), but surely all of the boxes in my racks are new enough (Proliant G2 and beyond). On the workstation side, I have no workstations at clients which are older than, say, four or five years. I can't recall the last system we deployed without an onboard NIC (though some of the older ones have failed, leading to the use of a card to get the last bit of life out of the station). I just don't have a hard answer as to when 128bit addressing *became* possible vs when it was not.

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Lewis
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