From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Aug 5 15:04:48 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 38A0537B401; Tue, 5 Aug 2003 15:04:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from vhost109.his.com (vhost109.his.com [216.194.225.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 393A643F3F; Tue, 5 Aug 2003 15:04:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brad.knowles@skynet.be) Received: from [10.0.1.2] (localhost.his.com [127.0.0.1]) by vhost109.his.com (8.12.6p2/8.12.3) with ESMTP id h75M4DtW065212; Tue, 5 Aug 2003 18:04:22 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from brad.knowles@skynet.be) Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: bs663385@pop.skynet.be Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <20030805191601.C8A215D0B@ptavv.es.net> References: <20030805191601.C8A215D0B@ptavv.es.net> Date: Tue, 5 Aug 2003 23:54:28 +0200 To: "Kevin Oberman" From: Brad Knowles Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" cc: ticso@cicely.de cc: FreeBSD-Current List 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: Tue, 05 Aug 2003 22:04:48 -0000 At 12:16 PM -0700 2003/08/05, Kevin Oberman wrote: > 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. I'm from the school where you don't run anything you don't absolutely need. Not even if the code is not being used, just loaded. I don't mind having the code on disk and accessible if/when I need it (even though that's also a risk), but I absolutely do not want the code loaded unless I'm actually going to be making use of it. -- Brad Knowles, "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania. GCS/IT d+(-) s:+(++)>: a C++(+++)$ UMBSHI++++$ P+>++ L+ !E-(---) W+++(--) N+ !w--- O- M++ V PS++(+++) PE- Y+(++) PGP>+++ t+(+++) 5++(+++) X++(+++) R+(+++) tv+(+++) b+(++++) DI+(++++) D+(++) G+(++++) e++>++++ h--- r---(+++)* z(+++)