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Etheryteyesterday at 7:28 AM1 replyview on HN

The whole world can't migrate all of their hardware on a whim. There was a period of time when it was a very common quip to say that Amazon would have to buy every new IPv6 compatible router in the world for a year if they wanted to upgrade their infra. I don't know if the urban legend is true or not, but the fact that it sounded plausible is a good enough of an example.


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Hikikomoriyesterday at 7:34 AM

And packet forwarding was done in hardware pipelines, can't software update them to handle new protocols.