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Re: problem statement [was Re: New Version Notification for draft-hinden-ipv4flag-00.txt]

Ole Troan <otroan@employees.org> Tue, 21 November 2017 11:39 UTC

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Subject: Re: problem statement [was Re: New Version Notification for draft-hinden-ipv4flag-00.txt]
Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2017 12:39:30 +0100
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We might consider disabling IPv4 on a network in the same fashion that we did it for AppleTalk, Apollo Domain, Banyan VINES, DECNet, CLNS, XNS, IPX...

This isn't a new problem.

Ole

> On 21 Nov 2017, at 06:49, Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike@swm.pp.se> wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 20 Nov 2017, Nick Hilliard wrote:
> 
>> It comes down where in your stack you want to put your hacks.  A sentry
> 
> Indeed. And I'd rather put this hack in IPv6, as it requires adding code to configure and send an additional RA option compared to requiring a complete IPv4 stack and DHCPv4 code to send some option there.
> 
> In 5-10 years, I might not want an IPv4 stack in a lot of network equipment.
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> Mikael Abrahamsson    email: swmike@swm.pp.se
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