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Subject: Re: Check IP Version
To: fenner@parc.xerox.com (Bill Fenner)
Date: Mon, 8 Apr 1996 15:14:21 -0700 (MST)
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> Note that the IPv6 people decided that there were too many broken
> implementations that don't check the IP version number, so they decided
> to get a new ethertype to carry IPv6 frames.

Political pansies.

Better that broken implementations simply cease functioning and end
up on the support doorsteps of their original parents.


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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