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Re: ipv6 maybe has arrived.



On Thu, Feb 09, 2023 at 03:16:49PM -0500, Dan Ritter wrote:
> gene heskett wrote: 
> > 
> > Chuckle... I might, but there also several switches in this lashup, the main
> > one claims to be managed but the other 2 are just glorified hubs. There's
> > even another router out in the shed but its running as a hub, radio turned
> > off just as are all the others here. They either come in on the cable modem
> > thru the NAT to get to my web page, or they don't get in. Nice cozy
> > feeling....
> 
> The good news here is that your switches and hubs operate on
> the ethernet level, not the IP level, so they don't care whether
> they are passing IPv4 or IPv6 or something stranger.

I'll believe they aren't switches when I see they are not generating
layer three traffic ;-)

> A management interface on a switch might be IPv4 only, if it's
> particularly old.

The question would be if such a switch can "do" v6 nevertheless...

Cheers
-- 
t

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