Date: Fri, 08 Aug 2003 08:01:30 -0300 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@tcoip.com.br> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: INET6 in world Message-ID: <3F33830A.2080608@tcoip.com.br> In-Reply-To: <3F3353D6.183AE6C8@mindspring.com> References: <3F2D1713.9060806@liwing.de> <20030803181735.GC6331@cicely12.cicely.de> <3F2EA5AD.E4C73C6@mindspring.com> <20030804184248.GA41334@crodrigues.org> <3F2F8A5F.A17CABCA@mindspring.com> <3F324AFF.1070104@tcoip.com.br> <3F3353D6.183AE6C8@mindspring.com>
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Terry Lambert wrote:
>
>
> 1) Machines do not ship with it enabled by default; a
> Windows user has about as much probability of doing
> the necessary work to enable it as they do of making
> something other than Internet Explorer their default
> browser.
>
> 2) You have to go to a command line prompt and issue a
> cryptic command to enable it at all.
Err, not at all. You go to install/remove additional windows components
(I do not recall the exact phrasing) and select IPv6.
> 3) When you enable it, you get a huge scare warning about
> it being experimental.
I didn't. :-) And the bastard stopped doing A queries. :-)
> 4) 95% of the existing Windows machines in the world are
> not running XP, and the last time I saw the code for
> Windows 95/98 IPv6 support was the Summer of 2000; they
> took it down from their site after that.
>
> 5) AFAIK, it still doesn't support key exchange, so you
> have to manually configure the keys, which is a really
> difficult and tedious process, and won't work with any
> embedded device that depend on key exchange working
> (e.g. thing NAT gateways, etc.).
>
> 6) The last time I tried the "experimental" version, it did
> not correctly interoperate with AIX or FreeBSD, but worked
> fine Windows-to-Windows, so they've done *something* to it
> to embrace and extend it.
>
> In short: "It's not ready for Prime Time".
>
> -- Terry
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