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Was not that the time of massive migration from IPX/SPX?
by anonymfus 6y ago
Was not that the time of massive migration from IPX/SPX?
- jiggawatts 6y agoI began my IT career in 1999 and I saw exactly one network that still had significant amounts of IPX usage, but it was already primarily IPv4. If any vendor had tried to sell a network product in 2001 that didn't do IPv4, they would have been laughed out of the room. Nobody is laughing in the faces of vendors in 2020 for selling products that can't do IPv6 properly... or at all. Nobody will be laughing in 2021. Or 2022... or... I suspect we'll be having this conversation in 2030 as well, and the same people complaining about the side-effects of carrier grade NAT four levels deep will trot out things like "IPv6 doesn't have security because it's not behind a NAT!"
- IntelMiner 6y agoOne of the last pieces of software I remember using IPX exclusively was Westwood Studios "Red Alert 2" released in 2000, along with its expansion pack released in 2001 I mainly remember as Vista dropped IPX support, rendering those games unplayable on LAN's for years until someone developed a UDP patch instead