ipv6 load balancers

[Carlos Friacas]

On Fri, 2 May 2008, Jeroen Massar wrote:

> Mark Schouten wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> On Wed, 2008-04-30 at 16:03 +0200, Jeroen Massar wrote:
>>> I know that BIT (http://www.bit.nl, unfortunately no english edition of 
>>> that site) uses F5 BIG-IP already for a couple of years in production IPv6 
>>> and from what I know they are quite happy with it too.
>> 
>> We are indeed. The only downside is the extra licensecosts.
>
> I really don't get that vendors are doing this. I can agree that they 
> probably need to do some kind of 'cost recovery' or something and that they 
> love to make extra money, but this way a lot of folks are like "IPv6 costs 
> extra money, it doesn't directly generate it, then why do it?" Especially 
> management and other bean counters will raise a red flag because of that and 
> thus halt doing IPv6 for the time being, probably till it is too late.
>
> I think vendors would be better off not pulling these kind of tricks and 
> would sell more products if they did not charge extra for IPv6.
>
> Greets,
> Jeroen
>
>

I agree.

However, sometimes there is a cost associated with early-adopting.

Hope we can cross that line soon, and vendors start to receive more 
requests in order to upgrade IPv6 priority in their products. :-)

Cheers,

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