Re:AWS and their billions in IPv4 addresses
by TheDong on Tuesday October 20, 2020 @04:14PM
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> ensure you can support it with a software update if you don't support it
For hardware, that doesn't sound that different from not supporting it. Convincing end-users of internet hardware to update their switch's firmware is hard. Ubiquiti has done a pretty good job of making updates actually doable, but for most hardware I doubt it'd happen more quickly than the hardware itself would fail.
> That isn't to say IPv6 couldn't have been done in a backward compatible way. I can think of ways to do that
For hardware, that doesn't sound that different from not supporting it. Convincing end-users of internet hardware to update their switch's firmware is hard. Ubiquiti has done a pretty good job of making updates actually doable, but for most hardware I doubt it'd happen more quickly than the hardware itself would fail.
> That isn't to say IPv6 couldn't have been done in a backward compatible way. I can think of ways to do that
Can you explain any of those ways?