[c-nsp] Older gear and IPv6

Dale W. Carder dwcarder at wisc.edu
Wed Mar 24 10:55:16 EDT 2010


Thus spake Charles Mills (w3yni1 at gmail.com) on Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 10:36:54AM -0400:
> Doing some research for an IPv6 migration "plan".  It is almost
> inevitable that it will run on older switch gear at some point for the
> sites I'm being tasked with evaluating.
> 
> Older Layer 3 gear being what it is I'm already aware does everything
> in software if it supports it at all.
> 
> What about older layer 2 gear? 

You should be fine unless you want your switches to do higher level
things like MLD snooping or edge port ACL's.

Dale


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