Sorry all these vendors support IPv6 upgrades as part of OS releases: Sun, IBM, HP, Microsoft, Cisco, Juniper, Windriver, and others. Yes some router and embedded systems hardware will require next gen hardware. But to say that IPv6 requires a hardware upgrade is misleading and not true for most boxes deployed in the market today.
/jim > -----Original Message----- > From: Måns Nilsson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 2003 3:34 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: Dan Lanciani > Subject: Re: IPv6 adoption behavior > > > > > --On Monday, October 20, 2003 00:23:04 -0400 Dan Lanciani > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I strongly doubt that IPv6 will be available as a software-only > > upgrade for any but the latest equipment. There is just too little > > incentive for vendors (especially ones who have gone out of > business > > :) to support "legacy" hardware (where "legacy" seems to > mean over six > > months old). > > My SparcStation 4 machines all run v6. They were built around > 1995, iirc. We have a Cisco 7507 router in SUNET, bought > around 1996, which runs v6. > > Do you need more examples? > > -- > Måns Nilsson Systems Specialist > +46 70 681 7204 KTHNOC MN1334-RIPE > > We're sysadmins. To us, data is a protocol-overhead. > -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPv6 working group mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Administrative Requests: https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipv6 --------------------------------------------------------------------
