= Сообщение: 3704 из 7440 ============================================= IPV6 = От : Tony Langdon 3:633/410 21 Oct 16 07:11:00 Кому : Michiel van der Vlist 21 Oct 16 07:11:00 Тема : Re: New candidate member FGHI : area://IPV6?msgid=2161.fido-ipv6@3:633/410+1c6e6630 На : area://IPV6?msgid=2:280/5555+5808a134 = Кодировка сообщения определена как: CP866 ================================== ============================================================================== -=> Michiel van der Vlist wrote to Andrew Leary <=-
MvV> Twenty five years ago, I had some. My company decided to go "LAN". I MvV> was the first to finish Novell's "Red Book". So I got the job of MvV> network operator. Of course IPv6 was not an issue then. We didn't even MvV> have IPv4. It was all IPX.. ;-)
Those were the days. I remember inheriting a corporate network that was a mishmash of IPX, IP and NetBEUI, with both Novell and Windows networking protocols in use. After sorting out the IP address assignments and demonstrating the feasibility of full time Internet access, I ended up getting the job of running that netowrk for many years. :) I actually started dabbling in IPv6 only a few years after. In those days (c. 2000), Linux support was highly experimental. One had to compile a custom kernel, and there were some interesting bugs, one of the most well known ones being that the default route didn't work! For a 2.2 series kernel, one had to add a static route to 200::/3 to talk to the wider IPv6 world. :) Yep, getting IPv6 working on a 2.2.x kernel was an experience! A far cry from today's "It just works". :-) Just as challenging, if not more so was finding applications that actually supported IPv6. Often, you had to add some experimental patch, and the support was hit and miss. Things broke frequently, and I got to keep the pieces, but it was fun. :)
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