Date: Mon, 8 Apr 1996 22:13:23 -0500 From: Jim Fleming <JimFleming@unety.net> To: "'Bill Fenner'" <fenner@parc.xerox.com>, "terry@lambert.org" <terry@lambert.org> Cc: "hackers@freebsd.org" <hackers@freebsd.org>, "JimFleming@unety.net" <JimFleming@unety.net> Subject: RE: Check IP Version Message-ID: <01BB2598.9ACCF280@webster.unety.net>
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On Monday, April 08, 1996 5:24 PM, Bill Fenner[SMTP:fenner@parc.xerox.com] wrote: @>Political pansies. @ @Realists. "This IPv6 shit breaks my toaster, I will continue to use IPv4 @since it works just fine" @ I agree with this approach. The majority of people can live with the current "limitations" of a 32 bit address space especially if multiple address spaces are created and a migration path is created to utilize those spaces without impacting your "toaster"... Creating more addresses is much easier than charting a smooth transition to the usage of those spaces. @It'd be nice to say "Sorry, your IPv4 stack is broken", but it's always @the newcomer that gets blamed for the troubles. "But it works without @the new thing, so the new thing must be broken." @ @ Bill @ ...see http://comm.unety.net/US/IL/Naperville/Unir -- Jim Fleming UNETY Systems, Inc. Naperville, IL 60563 e-mail: JimFleming@unety.net
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