Hi,

On Mon, Nov 26, 2018 at 01:59:38PM -0800, Joe Touch wrote:
> > Of course you can build a box that can do everything with the same 
> > speed.  I would recommend to the reader to make himself familiar with
> > current market realities, though, regarding "cost", "power consumption",
> > "feasibility to build in time before the increase in bandwidth has them
> > obsoleted again" and "willingness of customers to pay serious money for 
> > their Internet access".
> 
> If you sold this as "partial IPv6" or "incomplete support for RFC8200",
> then sure. 
> 
> If most of the time these options are not used, then fine - rate limit
> when they come up. But say that's what you're doing. 
> 
> And don't pretend that this is for security purposes. 

So your advice would be to turn off IPv6 support in our network, then?

Because customers are not going to pay money for it, and "no money for it"
is not going to buy me a "full featured and IETF-approved" set of routers.

Reality can be fairly uncomfortable.

Gert Doering
        -- NetMaster
-- 
have you enabled IPv6 on something today...?

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