On Wed, 2010-01-13 at 09:02 -0600, Mikus Grinbergs wrote: > > Surely all your machines can communicate quite happily using IPv6 > > link-local addresses? Why this fascination with Legacy IP? > > Because none of my facilities (including my desktops) are set up to > use IPv6.
You'd be surprised. These days, many modern Linux distributions -- and even crap like Windows and OS X -- will setup a link-local IPv6 address automatically in the default configuration. So, if you really do hate IPv6, you'll have to work quite hard to completely turn it off on all your facilities :-) -- // Bernie Innocenti - http://codewiz.org/ \X/ Sugar Labs - http://sugarlabs.org/ _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel