On Sat, Jun 27, 2015 at 1:23 PM, Lyndon Nerenberg <lyn...@orthanc.ca> wrote: > > On Jun 27, 2015, at 5:35 AM, Rafael Possamai <raf...@gav.ufsc.br> wrote: > > > How long do you think it will take to completely get rid of IPv4? Or is it > > even going to happen at all? > > IPX ruled the roost, very popularly, for a little while. How long did it > take to die? Why did it die? What were the triggers that pushed it over the > cliff? I think there's a lot to be learned from that piece of recent > history. Specifically, as a demonstration of how a "most popular" protocol > can find itself ejected from the arena in the blink of an eye. I knew > several people who built their career path on the assumptions of IPX. Ouch.
There are reasonable arguments that IPX was better than IPv4 but IPv4 had all the mind share as the standard and IPX was the proprietary alternative. So everyone switched but more than a few were not happy afterward when the noticed the features they had lost. Thanks, Donald ============================= Donald E. Eastlake 3rd +1-508-333-2270 (cell) 155 Beaver Street, Milford, MA 01757 USA d3e...@gmail.com > --lyndon >
