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Re:IAB Statement on IPv6 by eb0la on Tuesday November 08, 2016 @04:34PM (#12904143)
Very "funny", but that kind of crashes happened more than you imagine.. in telcos.

Usually the problem is memory. A machine with full routing enabled needs much more memory for IPv6 than for IPv4 and when routers run out of memory they just crash, reboot, and start again...

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Re:IAB Statement on IPv6 by CountSessine on Tuesday November 08, 2016 @10:28PM (#12905852)
Usually the problem is memory. A machine with full routing enabled needs much more memory for IPv6 than for IPv4

Interesting - why? I would have thought that routing tables for ipv6 would be a fraction of the size of their ipv4 equivalents. Am I wrong? Or is this just sloppy programming on the part of those switch programmers?

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