alt.folklore.nanog (was:Re: Commodore PET, was: Re: legacy /8)

2010-04-14 Thread Lamar Owen
On Sunday 11 April 2010 06:18:28 am Jeroen van Aart wrote: > According to the book "On the edge" by Brian Bagnall the first showing > was in March 1977. In January of 1977 it was announced at the CES. It > was shown to John Roach, then an operations guy of Rat > Shack. He was interested to ha

Re: legacy /8

2010-04-12 Thread Florian Weimer
* Paul Vixie: > as you have pointed out many times, ipv6 offers the same number of /32's > as ipv4. however, a /32 worth of ipv6 is enough for a lifetime even for > most multinationals, With 6RD on the table, this is not quite correct anymore.

Re: legacy /8

2010-04-12 Thread Randy Bush
> plenty of people have accused ipv6 of being a solution in search of a > problem. on this very mailing list within the last 72 hours i've seen > another person assert that "ipv6 isn't needed." while i tend to agree > with tony li who of ipv6 famously said it was "too little and too > soon" we ha

Re: legacy /8

2010-04-12 Thread Paul Vixie
> From: David Conrad > Date: Sun, 11 Apr 2010 13:52:24 -1000 > > On Apr 11, 2010, at 10:57 AM, Paul Vixie wrote: > > ... i'd like to pick the easiest problem and for that reason i'm urging > > dual-stack ipv4/ipv6 for all networks new or old. > > Is anyone arguing against this? yes. plenty of

Re: legacy /8

2010-04-11 Thread Mark Andrews
In message <54701fcf-13ea-44da-8677-26a7c6635...@virtualized.org>, David Conrad writes: > On Apr 11, 2010, at 10:57 AM, Paul Vixie wrote: > > i'd like to pick the easiest problem and > > for that reason i'm urging dual-stack ipv4/ipv6 for all networks new = > or old. > > Is anyone arguing agains

Re: legacy /8

2010-04-11 Thread David Conrad
On Apr 11, 2010, at 10:57 AM, Paul Vixie wrote: > i'd like to pick the easiest problem and > for that reason i'm urging dual-stack ipv4/ipv6 for all networks new or old. Is anyone arguing against this? The problem is what happens when there isn't sufficient IPv4 to do dual stack. Regards, -drc

Re: legacy /8

2010-04-11 Thread Paul Vixie
> From: David Conrad > Date: Sun, 11 Apr 2010 10:30:05 -1000 > > > unless a market in routing slots appears, there's no way for the direct > > beneficiaries of deaggregation to underwrite the indirect costs of same. > > And that's different from how it's always been in what way? when 64MB was a

Re: legacy /8

2010-04-11 Thread David Conrad
Paul, On Apr 11, 2010, at 8:58 AM, Paul Vixie wrote: > David Conrad writes: >> Growth becoming significantly more expensive is guaranteed. ... > more expensive for whom, though? ISPs requiring space will have to pay more and I fully anticipate that cost will propagate down to end users. In (s

Re: legacy /8

2010-04-11 Thread Owen DeLong
On Apr 11, 2010, at 11:34 AM, David Conrad wrote: > On Apr 11, 2010, at 8:09 AM, Owen DeLong wrote: >>> Part fo the reason folks aren't rushing to the V6 bandwagon is it's not >>> needed. Stop doing the chicken little dance folks. V6 is nice and gives >>> us tons of more addresses but I can t

Re: legacy /8

2010-04-11 Thread Paul Vixie
David Conrad writes: >> Growth in IPv4 accessible hosts will stop or become significantly more >> expensive or both in about 2.5 years (+/- 6 months). > > Growth stopping is extremely unlikely. Growth becoming significantly more > expensive is guaranteed. ... more expensive for whom, though? i

Re: legacy /8

2010-04-11 Thread Dobbins, Roland
On Apr 12, 2010, at 12:39 AM, wrote: > IPv6 isn't heavily used *currently*, so it may be perfectly acceptable to > deal with the mythological IPv6 DDoS The only IPv6-related DDoS attacks of which I'm aware to date is miscreants going after 6-to-4 gateways in order to disrupt one another's IP

Re: legacy /8

2010-04-11 Thread David Conrad
On Apr 11, 2010, at 8:09 AM, Owen DeLong wrote: >> Part fo the reason folks aren't rushing to the V6 bandwagon is it's not >> needed. Stop doing the chicken little dance folks. V6 is nice and gives us >> tons of more addresses but I can tell you V4 is more than two years form >> "dying" just b

Re: legacy /8

2010-04-11 Thread Owen DeLong
>> > We've been dealing with the IPV4 myth now for over 7 years that i have > followed it. It's about as valid as the exaflood myth. Part fo the reason > folks aren't rushing to the V6 bandwagon is it's not needed. Stop doing the > chicken little dance folks. V6 is nice and gives us tons of

Re: legacy /8

2010-04-11 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Sun, 11 Apr 2010 12:31:28 EDT, William Warren said: > On 4/3/2010 1:39 PM, valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: > > Given that currently most stuff is dual-stack, and IPv6 isn't totally > > widespread, what are the effects of doing IPv6 DDoS mitigation by simply > > turning off IPv6 on your upstream

Re: legacy /8

2010-04-11 Thread Paul Vixie
William Warren writes: > We've been dealing with the IPV4 myth now for over 7 years that i have > followed it. It's about as valid as the exaflood myth. Part fo the > reason folks aren't rushing to the V6 bandwagon is it's not needed. Stop > doing the chicken little dance folks. V6 is nice an

Re: legacy /8

2010-04-11 Thread William Warren
On 4/3/2010 1:31 PM, George Bonser wrote: -Original Message- From: Larry Sheldon [mailto:larryshel...@cox.net] Sent: Saturday, April 03, 2010 8:43 AM To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: legacy /8 On 4/3/2010 10:34, Michael Dillon wrote: That adoption is so low at this point

Re: legacy /8

2010-04-11 Thread William Warren
On 4/3/2010 1:39 PM, valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: On Sat, 03 Apr 2010 08:06:44 EDT, Jeffrey Lyon said: For small companies the cost of moving to IPv6 is far too great, especially when we rely on certain DDoS mitigation gear that does not yet have an IPv6 equivalent. So? How many p

Re: Commodore PET, was: Re: legacy /8

2010-04-11 Thread Paul Vixie
Jeroen van Aart writes: > ... > > That was at the West Coast Computer Faire in mid-April of 1977, organised > by Jim Warren of Dr. Dobbs Journal. The first major gather of hobbyists > and microcomputer companies. Apparently an important moment in the > microcomputer history. seems like i saw a

Commodore PET, was: Re: legacy /8

2010-04-11 Thread Jeroen van Aart
Roland Perry wrote: There are at least two sources which date the PET to "Winter CES" and "Jan 1977", but I agree that June CES is where production items would be first shown; however by then schools were out and my project was finished (I was studying to be maths teacher). I thought people m

Re: NAT444 vs IPv6 (was RE: legacy /8)

2010-04-09 Thread David Conrad
On Apr 7, 2010, at 11:29 AM, Lee Howard wrote: >> Can you provide pointers to these analyses? Any evidence-backed data >> showing how CGN >> is more expensive would be very helpful. > > It depends. ... > That math may or may not make sense for your network.. Right. My question was more along

NAT444 vs IPv6 (was RE: legacy /8)

2010-04-07 Thread Lee Howard
> > Nobody promised you a free lunch. In any case, the investment required to > > turn up IPv6 support is a lot less than the cost of carrier grade NAT. And > > the running costs of IPv6 are also lower, > > Can you provide pointers to these analyses? Any evidence-backed data showing how CGN > is

Re: legacy /8

2010-04-05 Thread Steve Bertrand
On 2010.04.05 09:20, Steve Bertrand wrote: > On 2010.04.02 19:29, John Palmer (NANOG Acct) wrote: >> Was looking for the "allocated" file on the ARIN website, but can't >> remember >> where it is. They used to have a file with one line per allocation that >> started >> like this "arin|US|ipv4". I

Re: legacy /8

2010-04-05 Thread Steve Bertrand
On 2010.04.02 19:29, John Palmer (NANOG Acct) wrote: > > - Original Message - From: "Majdi S. Abbas" > To: "John Palmer (NANOG Acct)" > Cc: "NANOG list" > Sent: Friday, April 02, 2010 5:52 PM > Subject: Re: legacy /8 > > >>

Re: legacy /8

2010-04-05 Thread Franck Martin
Do like the Chinese if you want a feature put out a billion dollar tender with the feature mandatory and they will rush to do it Toute connaissance est une réponse à une question On 5/04/2010, at 14:48, Christopher Morrow wrote: On Sun, Apr 4, 2010 at 7:41 PM, joel jaeggli wrote: On 4/

RE: legacy /8

2010-04-04 Thread George Bonser
> -Original Message- > From: Owen DeLong > Sent: Saturday, April 03, 2010 9:13 PM > To: Zaid Ali > Cc: nanog@nanog.org > Subject: Re: legacy /8 > > > On Apr 3, 2010, at 2:49 PM, Zaid Ali wrote: > > > They are not glowing because applicat

Re: legacy /8

2010-04-04 Thread Daniel Roesen
On Sun, Apr 04, 2010 at 04:31:25PM +0200, sth...@nethelp.no wrote: > > 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. Interesting. So much for their "IPv6 doesn't cos

Re: legacy /8

2010-04-04 Thread Mark Smith
On Sun, 04 Apr 2010 20:01:36 -0700 joel jaeggli wrote: > On 4/3/2010 6:15 PM, Mark Smith wrote: > > Ever used IPX or Appletalk? If you haven't, then you don't know how > > simple and capable networking can be. And those protocols were designed > > more than 20 years ago, yet they're still more ca

Re: legacy /8

2010-04-04 Thread joel jaeggli
On 4/3/2010 6:15 PM, Mark Smith wrote: Ever used IPX or Appletalk? If you haven't, then you don't know how simple and capable networking can be. And those protocols were designed more than 20 years ago, yet they're still more capable than IPv4. Zing, and there you have it! The hourglass is thin

Re: legacy /8

2010-04-04 Thread Christopher Morrow
On Sun, Apr 4, 2010 at 7:41 PM, joel jaeggli wrote: > On 4/4/2010 5:10 PM, Christopher Morrow wrote: >> >> On Sun, Apr 4, 2010 at 4:32 PM, joel jaeggli  wrote: >> >>> >>> Last time I checked, some of the state of the art 2004 era silicon I had >>> laying around could forward v6 just fine in hardwa

Re: legacy /8

2010-04-04 Thread joel jaeggli
On 4/4/2010 5:10 PM, Christopher Morrow wrote: On Sun, Apr 4, 2010 at 4:32 PM, joel jaeggli wrote: Last time I checked, some of the state of the art 2004 era silicon I had laying around could forward v6 just fine in hardware. It's not so usefyl due to it's fib being a bit undersized for

Re: legacy /8

2010-04-04 Thread Christopher Morrow
On Sun, Apr 4, 2010 at 4:32 PM, joel jaeggli wrote: > Last time I checked, some of the state of the art 2004 era silicon I had > laying around could forward v6 just fine in hardware.  It's not so usefyl due > to it's fib being a bit undersized for 330k routes plus v6, but hey, six > years is lo

Re: legacy /8

2010-04-04 Thread Randy Bush
>> The fact is that lack of fastpath support doesn't matter until IPv6 >> traffic levels get high enough to need the fastpath. > Yeah, fortunately, the fact that your router is burning CPU doing IPv6 > has no impact on stuff like BGP convergence. and, after all, if ipv6 takes off, we plan to throw

Re: legacy /8

2010-04-04 Thread Randy Bush
> 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. yep maybe try is-is randy

Re: legacy /8

2010-04-04 Thread Zaid Ali
On 4/4/10 2:04 PM, "Vadim Antonov" wrote: > >> Zaid >> >> P.s. Disclaimer: I have always been a network operator and never a dentist. > > I would have thought opposite. > It is sometimes helpful to draw lessons from nature and other systems :) > People who have been on this list longer wou

Re: legacy /8

2010-04-04 Thread Vadim Antonov
> Zaid > > P.s. Disclaimer: I have always been a network operator and never a dentist. I would have thought opposite. People who have been on this list longer would probably remember when I was playing in this sandbox. The real wisdom about networks is "never try to change everything and ever

Re: legacy /8

2010-04-04 Thread Christopher Morrow
On Sun, Apr 4, 2010 at 2:24 PM, David Conrad wrote: > On Apr 3, 2010, at 10:46 PM, Michael Dillon wrote: >> The fact is that lack of fastpath support doesn't matter until IPv6 >> traffic levels get high enough to need the fastpath. > > Yeah, fortunately, the fact that your router is burning CPU d

Re: legacy /8

2010-04-04 Thread David Conrad
On Apr 3, 2010, at 10:46 PM, Michael Dillon wrote: > If "every significant router on the market" supported IPv6 five years ago,We > need more of the spirit of the old days of networking when people building > UUCP, and Fidonet and IP networks did less complaining about "vendors" and > made thing

Re: legacy /8

2010-04-04 Thread Zaid Ali
On 4/4/10 6:44 AM, "Leen Besselink" wrote: > "Out of the total number of emails received, 14% were received over > IPv6, the rest over IPv4." It should be clear that 14% received here is email to RIPE NCC servers. I don't think we have 14% of SMTP traffic out there coming via IPv6. Actual SMTP

Re: legacy /8

2010-04-04 Thread Joel M Snyder
Owen DeLong wrote: >It was based on 56kbit lines and the primary applications were >email, ftp, and telnet. (you have to have the right Yorkshire accent and Monty Python background for this...) 56kbit lines? If only we were so lucky... We had 9600 V.29 synchronous modems! Synchronous? My g

Re: legacy /8

2010-04-04 Thread Roland Perry
In article <4bb897a7.60...@consolejunkie.net>, Leen Besselink writes >> (I saw a number in the last 2-3 days that 2-3% of spam is now being delivered >> via SMTP-over-IPv6). You may not need that gear as much as you thought... > >This maybe ?: >http://labs.ripe.net/content/spam-over-ipv6 > >"Out

Re: legacy /8

2010-04-04 Thread sthaug
> > 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

Re: legacy /8

2010-04-04 Thread Leen Besselink
On 04/03/2010 07:39 PM, valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: On Sat, 03 Apr 2010 08:06:44 EDT, Jeffrey Lyon said: For small companies the cost of moving to IPv6 is far too great, especially when we rely on certain DDoS mitigation gear that does not yet have an IPv6 equivalent. So? How man

Re: legacy /8

2010-04-04 Thread Roland Perry
In article <201004041249.o34cnuut078...@aurora.sol.net>, Joe Greco writes Some sources claim the PET is later, but I remember it because I was doing a project on "PCs in Schools" in the spring of 1977, using an 8-bit PC that I had built myself on a patchboard. And the PET arrived just in time fo

Re: legacy /8

2010-04-04 Thread Tore Anderson
* Michael Dillon > 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 IP

Re: legacy /8

2010-04-04 Thread Joe Greco
> In article <207e4e4f-b642-424e-8649-810a589da...@delong.com>, Owen > DeLong writes > >I believe the IPv4 classful addressing scheme (which some have pointed > >out was the second IPv4 addressing scheme, I wasn't involved early > >enough for the first, so didn't remember it) predates commodore

Re: legacy /8

2010-04-04 Thread Roland Perry
In article <207e4e4f-b642-424e-8649-810a589da...@delong.com>, Owen DeLong writes I believe the IPv4 classful addressing scheme (which some have pointed out was the second IPv4 addressing scheme, I wasn't involved early enough for the first, so didn't remember it) predates commodore, apple, etc

Re: legacy /8

2010-04-04 Thread Zaid Ali
On 4/3/10 9:12 PM, "Owen DeLong" wrote: > Uh, netflix seems fully functional to me on IPv6. What do you think is > missing? Functional is the easy part and it seems Netflix has executed that well. I was implying that the v6 traffic rate might not be quite there yet which is what we saw with

Re: legacy /8

2010-04-04 Thread Michael Dillon
>> If "every significant router on the market" supported IPv6 five years ago, > > and if cash fell from the sky ... > > to folk actually running real networks, 'support' means *parity* with > ipv4, i.e. fast path at decent rates, management and monitoring, no > licensing extortion, ... > > we don't

Re: legacy /8

2010-04-04 Thread Zaid Ali
This sounds like Step 1: I have a wisdom tooth, it hurts on my right jaw and so I will chew from my left. Step 2: Take some pain killers. Step 3: Damn it hurts I will ignore it and it will eventually heal. Step 4: Continue to take pain killers and perhaps if I sleep more it will grow in the rig

Re: legacy /8

2010-04-04 Thread Owen DeLong
On Apr 3, 2010, at 2:49 PM, Zaid Ali wrote: > They are not glowing because applications are simply not moving to IPv6. > Google has two popular applications on IPv6, Netflix is on it way there but > what are other application companies doing about it? A popular application > like e-mail is so far

Re: legacy /8

2010-04-04 Thread Owen DeLong
On Apr 3, 2010, at 1:03 AM, Jeroen van Aart wrote: > Owen DeLong wrote: >> It was thought that we would not have nearly so many people connected to the >> internet. It was expected that most things connecting to the internet would >> be minicomputers and mainframes. > > It took some visionary

Re: legacy /8

2010-04-03 Thread Dan White
On 03/04/10 23:11 -0700, Vadim Antonov wrote: With all that bitching about IPv6 how come nobody wrote an RFC for a very simple solution to the IPv4 address exhaustion problem: +1 years. Step 1: specify an IP option for extra "low order" bits of source & destination address. Add handling of t

Re: legacy /8

2010-04-03 Thread Adrian Chadd
On Sat, Apr 03, 2010, Vadim Antonov wrote: > Step 1: specify an IP option for extra "low order" bits of source & > destination address. Add handling of these to the popular OSes. Don't IP options translate to "handle in slow path" on various routing platforms? :) THat makes "leave backbones un

Re: legacy /8

2010-04-03 Thread Vadim Antonov
With all that bitching about IPv6 how come nobody wrote an RFC for a very simple solution to the IPv4 address exhaustion problem: Step 1: specify an IP option for extra "low order" bits of source & destination address. Add handling of these to the popular OSes. Step 2: make NATs which directl

Re: legacy /8

2010-04-03 Thread Mark Smith
On Sat, 3 Apr 2010 18:37:51 -0700 (PDT) David Barak wrote: > --- On Sat, 4/3/10, Mark Smith > wrote: > > To: "George Bonser" > > > No.  But that isn't the point.  The point is > > that v6 was a bad solution > > > to the problem.  Rather than simply address the > > address depletion > > > probl

Re: legacy /8

2010-04-03 Thread David Barak
--- On Sat, 4/3/10, Mark Smith wrote: > To: "George Bonser" > > No.  But that isn't the point.  The point is > that v6 was a bad solution > > to the problem.  Rather than simply address the > address depletion > > problem, it also "solves" a lot of problems that > nobody has while > > creating a

Re: legacy /8

2010-04-03 Thread Randy Bush
> If "every significant router on the market" supported IPv6 five years ago, and if cash fell from the sky ... to folk actually running real networks, 'support' means *parity* with ipv4, i.e. fast path at decent rates, management and monitoring, no licensing extortion, ... we don't have that tod

Re: legacy /8

2010-04-03 Thread Mark Smith
On Sat, 3 Apr 2010 11:25:48 -0700 "George Bonser" wrote: > > > > -Original Message- > > From: Larry Sheldon [mailto:larryshel...@cox.net] > > Sent: Saturday, April 03, 2010 10:54 AM > > Cc: nanog@nanog.org > > Subject: Re: legacy

Re: legacy /8

2010-04-03 Thread Zaid Ali
ks glowing with IPv6 connectivity? If it's not the > hardware, than I'm guessing it's something else, like people or processes? > > Frank > > -Original Message- > From: Michael Dillon [mailto:wavetos...@googlemail.com] > Sent: Saturday, April 03, 20

Re: legacy /8

2010-04-03 Thread David Conrad
On Apr 3, 2010, at 11:22 AM, Frank Bulk wrote: > If "every significant router on the market" supported IPv6 five years ago, > why aren't transit links glowing with IPv6 connectivity? If it's not the > hardware, than I'm guessing it's something else, like people or processes? Or the fact that "sup

RE: legacy /8

2010-04-03 Thread Frank Bulk
mostly to the for-profits) to find native IPv6 access because it provides an immediate and direct savings Frank -Original Message- From: James Hess [mailto:mysi...@gmail.com] Sent: Saturday, April 03, 2010 1:08 PM To: George Bonser Cc: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: legacy /8 I suppose if

RE: legacy /8

2010-04-03 Thread Frank Bulk
Michael Dillon [mailto:wavetos...@googlemail.com] Sent: Saturday, April 03, 2010 1:07 PM To: Larry Sheldon Cc: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: legacy /8 > Not often you hear something that has changed just about every aspect of > life and enabled things that could not be imagined at its outset

Re: legacy /8

2010-04-03 Thread Randy Bush
> No. But that isn't the point. The point is that v6 was a bad solution > to the problem. Rather than simply address the address depletion > problem, it also "solves" a lot of problems that nobody has while > creating a whole bunch more that we will have. it's known as "second system syndrome."

RE: legacy /8

2010-04-03 Thread George Bonser
> -Original Message- > From: ma...@isc.org [mailto:ma...@isc.org] > Sent: Saturday, April 03, 2010 11:42 AM > To: George Bonser > Cc: Larry Sheldon; nanog@nanog.org > Subject: Re: legacy /8 > > > And we would have still had the same problem of intercommunica

Re: legacy /8

2010-04-03 Thread David Conrad
On Apr 3, 2010, at 8:25 AM, George Bonser wrote: > The point is that v6 was a bad solution to the problem. Well, yes, but... > Rather than simply address the address depletion > problem, it also "solves" a lot of problems that nobody has while > creating a whole bunch more that we will have.

Re: legacy /8

2010-04-03 Thread David Conrad
On Apr 3, 2010, at 6:17 AM, Robert Brockway wrote: > On Fri, 2 Apr 2010, jim deleskie wrote: >> Just like 640k or memory :) > But what if I said "640 petabytes will be more than anyone will ever need". > The future might prove me wrong but it probably won't happen for a long time. > That's a b

Re: legacy /8

2010-04-03 Thread Mark Andrews
In message <5a6d953473350c4b9995546afe9939ee08fe6...@rwc-ex1.corp.seven.com>, "George Bonser" writes: > No. But that isn't the point. The point is that v6 was a bad solution > to the problem. Rather than simply address the address depletion > problem, it also "solves" a lot of problems that no

RE: legacy /8

2010-04-03 Thread George Bonser
> -Original Message- > From: George Bonser [mailto:gbon...@seven.com] > Sent: Saturday, April 03, 2010 11:26 AM > To: Larry Sheldon > Cc: nanog@nanog.org > Subject: RE: legacy /8 > > > > > -Original Message- > > From: Larry Sheldon

RE: legacy /8

2010-04-03 Thread Stephen Repetski
> -Original Message- > From: James Hess [mailto:mysi...@gmail.com] > Sent: Saturday, April 03, 2010 2:08 PM > To: George Bonser > Cc: nanog@nanog.org > Subject: Re: legacy /8 > > On Sat, Apr 3, 2010 at 11:31 AM, George Bonser > wrote: > > Any school tea

RE: legacy /8

2010-04-03 Thread George Bonser
> -Original Message- > From: Larry Sheldon [mailto:larryshel...@cox.net] > Sent: Saturday, April 03, 2010 10:54 AM > Cc: nanog@nanog.org > Subject: Re: legacy /8 > > > That is the parachute's fault? > > Really? > -- No. But that isn't

Re: legacy /8

2010-04-03 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Sat, 03 Apr 2010 13:12:20 +1030, Mark Smith said: > going to be enough. I'm not sure why the 32 bit address size was > persisted with at that point - maybe it was because there would be > significant performance loss in handling addresses greater than what > was probably the most common host wo

Re: legacy /8

2010-04-03 Thread James Hess
On Sat, Apr 3, 2010 at 11:31 AM, George Bonser wrote: > Any school teaching v4 at this point other than as a legacy protocol > that they teach on the second year because "they might see it in the > wild" should be closed down.  All new instruction that this point should > begin and end with v6 wit

Re: legacy /8

2010-04-03 Thread Michael Dillon
> Not often you hear something that has changed just about every aspect of > life and enabled things that could not be imagined at its outset  called > a failure Sounds like you are describing the Roman Empire. It failed and that's why we now have an EU in its place. Things change. Time to move o

Re: legacy /8

2010-04-03 Thread Larry Sheldon
On 4/3/2010 12:31, George Bonser wrote: > > >> -Original Message- >> From: Larry Sheldon [mailto:larryshel...@cox.net] >> Sent: Saturday, April 03, 2010 8:43 AM >> To: nanog@nanog.org >> Subject: Re: legacy /8 >> >> On 4/3/2010 10:34, Micha

Re: legacy /8

2010-04-03 Thread Mark Andrews
In message <4bb7621b.9030...@cox.net>, Larry Sheldon writes: > On 4/3/2010 10:34, Michael Dillon wrote: > >> That adoption is so low at this point really says that it has failed. > > > > In the real world, there is no success or failure, only next steps. > > At this point, IPv4 has failed, > >

Re: legacy /8

2010-04-03 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Sat, 03 Apr 2010 08:06:44 EDT, Jeffrey Lyon said: > For small companies the cost of moving to IPv6 is far too great, > especially when we rely on certain DDoS mitigation gear that does not > yet have an IPv6 equivalent. So? How many people are *realistically* being hit by IPv6 DDoS right now?

RE: legacy /8

2010-04-03 Thread George Bonser
> -Original Message- > From: Larry Sheldon [mailto:larryshel...@cox.net] > Sent: Saturday, April 03, 2010 8:43 AM > To: nanog@nanog.org > Subject: Re: legacy /8 > > On 4/3/2010 10:34, Michael Dillon wrote: > >> That adoption is so low at this point re

RE: legacy /8

2010-04-03 Thread George Bonser
> -Original Message- > From: Jim Burwell [mailto:j...@jsbc.cc] > Sent: Friday, April 02, 2010 11:48 PM > To: George Bonser > Cc: nanog@nanog.org > Subject: Re: legacy /8 > > On 4/2/2010 19:13, George Bonser wrote: > > > > > >> -Original

RE: legacy /8

2010-04-03 Thread George Bonser
> -Original Message- > From: Mark Smith > [mailto:na...@85d5b20a518b8f6864949bd940457dc124746ddc.nosense.org] > Sent: Friday, April 02, 2010 11:09 PM > To: George Bonser > Cc: John Palmer (NANOG Acct); nanog@nanog.org > Subject: Re: legacy /8 > Y2K was a bit

Re: legacy /8

2010-04-03 Thread Robert Brockway
On Fri, 2 Apr 2010, jim deleskie wrote: Just like 640k or memory :) But what if I said "640 petabytes will be more than anyone will ever need". The future might prove me wrong but it probably won't happen for a long time. That's a better analogy for IPv6. IPv6 could have included a larg

Re: legacy /8

2010-04-03 Thread Larry Sheldon
On 4/3/2010 10:34, Michael Dillon wrote: >> That adoption is so low at this point really says that it has failed. > > In the real world, there is no success or failure, only next steps. > At this point, IPv4 has failed, Failed? Really?!!?! Not often you hear something that has changed just abo

Re: legacy /8

2010-04-03 Thread Michael Dillon
> That adoption is so low at this point really says that it has failed. In the real world, there is no success or failure, only next steps. At this point, IPv4 has failed, and IPv6 is the next step. No realistic alternative next steps exist at present. In addition any alternative next step to IPv6

Re: legacy /8

2010-04-03 Thread Bill Bogstad
On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 8:22 PM, Randy Bush wrote: > ipv4 spae is not 'running out.'  the rirs are running out of a free > resource which they then rent to us.  breaks my little black heart. > > even if, and that's an if, ipv6 takes off, ipv4 is gonna be around for a > lng while.  when 95% of t

Re: legacy /8

2010-04-03 Thread Mark Andrews
In message , jim d eleskie writes: > James, > > I agree with you concern, and as someone else said the devil is in > the details, you points are something that would need to be looked at > if enough people though we should move forward and look at an idea > like this, which I think we should, bu

Re: legacy /8

2010-04-03 Thread Steven Bellovin
47 AM, Jim Burwell wrote: >> On 4/2/2010 19:13, George Bonser wrote: >>> >>> >>>> -Original Message- >>>> From: Jim Burwell [mailto:j...@jsbc.cc] >>>> Sent: Friday, April 02, 2010 6:00 PM >>>> To: nanog@nanog.org &g

Re: legacy /8

2010-04-03 Thread jim deleskie
James, I agree with you concern, and as someone else said the devil is in the details, you points are something that would need to be looked at if enough people though we should move forward and look at an idea like this, which I think we should, but not sure if enough traffic to start down that

Re: legacy /8

2010-04-03 Thread jim deleskie
/2/2010 19:13, George Bonser wrote: >> >> >>> -Original Message- >>> From: Jim Burwell [mailto:j...@jsbc.cc] >>> Sent: Friday, April 02, 2010 6:00 PM >>> To: nanog@nanog.org >>> Subject: Re: legacy /8 >>> >> >> >&g

Re: legacy /8

2010-04-03 Thread jim deleskie
n an RFC?  Or, has someone done so for this > already? > > - Original Message - From: "jim deleskie" > To: > Sent: Friday, April 02, 2010 9:17 PM > Subject: Re: legacy /8 > > > I'm old but maybe not old nuff to know if this was discussed before or

Re: legacy /8

2010-04-03 Thread Jeffrey Lyon
People use IPv4 because it's cost effective to do so. When I only have to pay $1250 per year for a /21 there is little incentive to heavily restrict the use of that space. People are buying dedicated servers every day with /29 - /24 of space using very questionable justification and any justificati

Re: legacy /8

2010-04-03 Thread Rich Kulawiec
A more productive approach might, and I emphasize *might*, be to identify those allocations which are hijacked and/or in use by dedicated abuse operations. This would have the desirable side effect of depriving those operations of resources, however it would also saddle subsequent owners with the

Re: legacy /8

2010-04-03 Thread Jim Burwell
On 4/3/2010 01:03, Jeroen van Aart wrote: > Owen DeLong wrote: >> It was thought that we would not have nearly so many people connected >> to the internet. It was expected that most things connecting to the >> internet would be minicomputers and mainframes. > > It took some visionary and creative

Re: legacy /8

2010-04-03 Thread James Hess
On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 9:17 PM, jim deleskie wrote: > not, but I've been asking people last few months why we don't just do > something like this. don't even need to get rid of BGP, just add some [snip] > On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 11:13 PM, George Bonser wrote: [snip]>> and there ya go. Oh, and prob

Re: legacy /8

2010-04-03 Thread Jeroen van Aart
Owen DeLong wrote: It was thought that we would not have nearly so many people connected to the internet. It was expected that most things connecting to the internet would be minicomputers and mainframes. It took some visionary and creative thinking to "come up" with the internet. But given

Re: legacy /8

2010-04-03 Thread Martin Hotze
> Date: Fri, 02 Apr 2010 15:25:22 -0700 > From: Jeroen van Aart > Subject: Re: legacy /8 > To: NANOG list > Message-ID: <4bb66ed2.6080...@mompl.net> > > Cutler James R wrote: > > I also just got a fresh box of popcorn. I will sit by and wait > > I hon

Re: legacy /8

2010-04-03 Thread Jim Burwell
On 4/2/2010 21:23, Randy Bush wrote: >> Anyway, I see it as pretty much moot, since many major players (Comcast, >> Google, etc) are in the midst of major IPv6 deployments as we speak. >> Eventually you will have to jump on the bandwagon too. :-) >> > clue0: the isp for which i work deployed

Re: legacy /8

2010-04-03 Thread Owen DeLong
t; /8's? > > - Original Message - From: "Majdi S. Abbas" > To: "Jeroen van Aart" > Cc: "NANOG list" > Sent: Friday, April 02, 2010 4:06 PM > Subject: Re: legacy /8 > > >> On Fri, Apr 02, 2010 at 02:01:45PM -0700, Jeroen van Aart

Re: legacy /8

2010-04-03 Thread Owen DeLong
On Apr 2, 2010, at 4:40 PM, Brielle Bruns wrote: > On 4/2/10 3:01 PM, Jeroen van Aart wrote: >> I am curious. Once we're nearing exhausting all IPv4 space will there >> ever come a time to ask/demand/force returning all these legacy /8 >> allocations? I think I understand the difficulty in that,

Re: legacy /8

2010-04-02 Thread Jim Burwell
On 4/2/2010 19:13, George Bonser wrote: > > >> -Original Message- >> From: Jim Burwell [mailto:j...@jsbc.cc] >> Sent: Friday, April 02, 2010 6:00 PM >> To: nanog@nanog.org >> Subject: Re: legacy /8 >> > > >> So, jump thro

Re: legacy /8

2010-04-02 Thread Mark Smith
On Fri, 2 Apr 2010 22:06:24 -0700 "George Bonser" wrote: > > > > -Original Message- > > From: George Bonser [mailto:gbon...@seven.com] > > Sent: Friday, April 02, 2010 7:53 PM > > To: John Palmer (NANOG Acct); nanog@nanog.org > > Sub

Re: legacy /8

2010-04-02 Thread bmanning
Jim Burwell [mailto:j...@jsbc.cc] > >> Sent: Friday, April 02, 2010 6:00 PM > >> To: nanog@nanog.org > >> Subject: Re: legacy /8 > > > > > >> So, jump through hoops to kludge up IPv4 so it continues to provide > >> address space for new all

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