Now if you can make it 'will always just push packets', we'll be golden.
Unfortunately, there are enough ATM/MPLS/SONET/etc networks being run by people who no longer understand what they're doing, that we're never going to get there.
To make matters more entertaining, IPv6 depends on icmp6 even more.
Agreed
> and generally do
Agreed.
Now if you can make it 'will always just push packets', we'll be golden.
Unfortunately, there are enough ATM/MPLS/SONET/etc networks being run by people who no longer understand what they're doing, that we're never going to get there.
To make matters more entertaining, IPv6 depends on icmp6 even more.