From owner-freebsd-net Mon May 18 22:30:30 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA15353 for freebsd-net-outgoing; Mon, 18 May 1998 22:30:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from softweyr.com ([204.68.178.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA15201 for ; Mon, 18 May 1998 22:29:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from softweyr.com (localhost.softweyr.com [127.0.0.1]) by softweyr.com (8.8.8/8.8.7) with ESMTP id XAA00607; Mon, 18 May 1998 23:28:26 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Message-ID: <35611879.3C1D1B82@softweyr.com> Date: Mon, 18 May 1998 23:28:25 -0600 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr llc X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.6-RELEASE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Petri Helenius CC: "Louis A. Mamakos" , Garrett Wollman , Pierre Beyssac , net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: v6 issues 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> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 http://www.softweyr.com/~softweyr wes@softweyr.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message