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From: "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net>
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Subject: Re: INET6 in world 
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> Date: Tue, 5 Aug 2003 20:52:50 +0200
> From: Brad Knowles <brad.knowles@skynet.be>
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> At 9:37 AM -0700 2003/08/05, David O'Brien wrote:
> 
> >  Machanism, not policy.  I would also like to run with NO_INET6.  IPv6
> >  support has done nothing for me other than cause me problems.  I still
> >  strongly disagree with our ordering of localhost in /etc/hosts.  My
> >  system worked worlds better when I put the IPv4 localhost first.
> 
> 	There is no IPv6 in this house, nor is there likely to be any 
> time soon.  If I can't kill IPv6 from a configuration standpoint, 
> I'll go ripping out the freakin' code, or I'll use an OS that gives 
> me the option.

I may have missed part of this tread as I am on travel. Why is simply
not enabling ipv6 adequate? Note: I DO run IPv6 routinely when at
work, so I normally do have it enabled. I'd like to get an
understanding of what the issue might be. The point is clearly
strongly heald be some reasonably knowledgeable people.
-- 
R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
Energy Sciences Network (ESnet)
Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab)
E-mail: oberman@es.net			Phone: +1 510 486-8634