[c-nsp] Older gear and IPv6

Elmar K. Bins elmi at 4ever.de
Wed Mar 24 10:47:21 EDT 2010


Hi Charles,

w3yni1 at gmail.com (Charles Mills) wrote:

> Older Layer 3 gear being what it is I'm already aware does everything
> in software if it supports it at all.

Yups. My old 2511 did exactly that.

> What about older layer 2 gear?  Are there any issues there or is a
> packet just a packet regardless of the address format?  I can't think
> of anything to worry about here unless there are MTU issues.

Well, my IPv6 packets are actually transported by a C-1912, so it
should work even with the oldest spare parts ;)

Yours,
	Elmar.

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