Date: Mon, 18 May 1998 23:28:25 -0600 From: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> To: Petri Helenius <pete@sms.fi> Cc: "Louis A. Mamakos" <louie@TransSys.COM>, Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>, Pierre Beyssac <pb@fasterix.freenix.org>, net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: v6 issues Message-ID: <35611879.3C1D1B82@softweyr.com> References: <13658.27284.20359.164715@silver.sms.fi> <3801.895139158@time.cdrom.com> <19980515003707.A18577@fasterix.frmug.fr.net> <199805150256.WAA29412@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> <13659.51336.457818.157020@silver.sms.fi> <199805190031.UAA10037@whizzo.TransSys.COM> <13665.2618.836915.227355@silver.sms.fi>
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Petri Helenius wrote:
>
> Louis A. Mamakos writes:
>
> > That having been said, IPv6 will be deployed from the "edges" of the
> > network inwards toward the backbone. Islands of native IPv6 will be
>
> Correct statement here would be "is being deployed". The speed or
> level of deployment is not impressive yet, but I would imagine that
> it gets a nice jumpstart from the router vendors when they release
> their code.
>
> > interconnected over the existing IPv4 Internet *long* before there is
> > native IPv6 connectivity between arbitrary end-systems. So having a
> > v6 stack in FreeBSD will be a useful thing. But please keep the
> > larger picture in mind so that you won't be disappointed.
> >
> Obviously we need major OS vendors to have released v6 code and
> applications built to use that in order to make this really
> happen.
You both seem to be ignoring the fact that the networking market is
driven by so-called 'IT professionals' these days, most of whom can't
tell the difference between an ARP and a carp. I write IP routing
software at my 'day job', for one of the major campus-area network
equipment vendors, and IPv6 hasn't even come up on our radar yet.
(It'll cause quite a screaming fit when it does; none of our switching
hardware is going to handle 128-bit layer 3 addresses AT ALL. ;^)
--
"Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?"
Wes Peters Softweyr LLC
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