From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Aug 8 04:01:48 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AE6B537B401 for ; Fri, 8 Aug 2003 04:01:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.tcoip.com.br (erato.tco.net.br [200.220.254.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D493643F85 for ; Fri, 8 Aug 2003 04:01:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dcs@tcoip.com.br) Received: from tcoip.com.br ([10.0.2.6]) by mail.tcoip.com.br (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id h78B1Vj15873; Fri, 8 Aug 2003 08:01:31 -0300 Message-ID: <3F33830A.2080608@tcoip.com.br> Date: Fri, 08 Aug 2003 08:01:30 -0300 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030702 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en, pt-br, ja MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Terry Lambert References: <3F2D1713.9060806@liwing.de> <20030803181735.GC6331@cicely12.cicely.de> <3F2EA5AD.E4C73C6@mindspring.com> <20030804184248.GA41334@crodrigues.org> <3F2F8A5F.A17CABCA@mindspring.com> <3F324AFF.1070104@tcoip.com.br> <3F3353D6.183AE6C8@mindspring.com> In-Reply-To: <3F3353D6.183AE6C8@mindspring.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: Craig Rodrigues cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: INET6 in world X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 08 Aug 2003 11:01:49 -0000 Terry Lambert wrote: > > > 1) Machines do not ship with it enabled by default; a > Windows user has about as much probability of doing > the necessary work to enable it as they do of making > something other than Internet Explorer their default > browser. > > 2) You have to go to a command line prompt and issue a > cryptic command to enable it at all. Err, not at all. You go to install/remove additional windows components (I do not recall the exact phrasing) and select IPv6. > 3) When you enable it, you get a huge scare warning about > it being experimental. I didn't. :-) And the bastard stopped doing A queries. :-) > 4) 95% of the existing Windows machines in the world are > not running XP, and the last time I saw the code for > Windows 95/98 IPv6 support was the Summer of 2000; they > took it down from their site after that. > > 5) AFAIK, it still doesn't support key exchange, so you > have to manually configure the keys, which is a really > difficult and tedious process, and won't work with any > embedded device that depend on key exchange working > (e.g. thing NAT gateways, etc.). > > 6) The last time I tried the "experimental" version, it did > not correctly interoperate with AIX or FreeBSD, but worked > fine Windows-to-Windows, so they've done *something* to it > to embrace and extend it. > > In short: "It's not ready for Prime Time". > > -- Terry -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) Gerencia de Operacoes Divisao de Comunicacao de Dados Coordenacao de Seguranca VIVO Centro Oeste Norte Fones: 55-61-313-7654/Cel: 55-61-9618-0904 E-mail: Daniel.Capo@tco.net.br Daniel.Sobral@tcoip.com.br dcs@tcoip.com.br Outros: dcs@newsguy.com dcs@freebsd.org capo@notorious.bsdconspiracy.net Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died. -- Erma Bombeck