From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Apr 8 20:16:09 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id UAA00464 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 8 Apr 1996 20:16:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from doorstep.unety.net (root@usi-00-10.Naperville.unety.net [204.70.107.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id UAA00452 for ; Mon, 8 Apr 1996 20:16:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from webster.unety.net (webster.unety.net [206.31.202.8]) by doorstep.unety.net (8.6.9/8.6.9) with SMTP id WAA03390; Mon, 8 Apr 1996 22:10:51 -0500 Received: by webster.unety.net with Microsoft Mail id <01BB2598.9ACCF280@webster.unety.net>; Mon, 8 Apr 1996 22:13:24 -0500 Message-ID: <01BB2598.9ACCF280@webster.unety.net> From: Jim Fleming To: "'Bill Fenner'" , "terry@lambert.org" Cc: "hackers@freebsd.org" , "JimFleming@unety.net" Subject: RE: Check IP Version Date: Mon, 8 Apr 1996 22:13:23 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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