On Tue, 21 Mar 2006 19:37:23 -0600 Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > On Tuesday 21 March 2006 18:18, "Luiz Carlos Guidolin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] ping!': > > IPV6 requires a specific hardware to run. > > Blatantly and completely false. Any hardware that can transport ipv4 > traffic can transport ipv6 traffic [1]. Routing tables may be larger > (although for the backbone they are supposed to be /smaller/), but they > will not /require/ additional hardware. For hardware switching/routing of > IPv6 packets (so, this is a layer 3 [or above] switch/router?) well, of > course hardware is required, but that doesn't mean you can't do IPv6 in > software or firmware. > > You can join 6-bone today, as long as you have a public (even dynamic) ipv4 > IP and a relatively recent kernel.
In fact when I first started gentoo (and it was a few years ago now) there was a gentoo ipv6 howto, which told you how to get connected to ipv6 via a couple of virtual providers (HeNET?), so I don't think that even a recent kernel was required. That was in 2.4 days. > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
