David Brown wrote: > On Wed, Oct 01, 2008 at 07:53:03AM -0700, Andrew Lentvorski wrote: > >> Well, the continuing frustratation^Wmigration from IPv4 to IPv6 shows >> this is *very* tightly coupled. It is not very easy to rip out. The >> problem, of course, if the fact that you have to replace the state >> machines on *both* sides simultaneously. > > Except that I don't think the lack of migration to IPv6 has anything > to do with problems in the underlying protocol. Most modern operating > systems already support IPv6. > > A bigger problem is that the API between the client application and > the TCP stack changes when you move to IPv6. > > But, probably killing it even more than that is the lack of > infrastructure. I've never had an ISP at home that supported IPv6, > other than having a 6-4 gateway that sometimes works. I can do IPv6 > at work, and happily browse the 5 websites that are on IPv6. > > David
IIANM, my ethernet card is configured with DHCP from my ISP, DSL Extreme: $ /sbin/ifconfig eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff inet addr:ff.ff.ff.ff Bcast:ff.ff.ff.ff Mask:255.255.255.0 inet6 addr: ffff::fff:ffff:ffff:ffff/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:102276 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:87450 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:102507877 (97.7 MiB) TX bytes:9008851 (8.5 MiB) Interrupt:23 Base address:0xe000 Does this mean that I have IPv6? If so, what are these 5 sites that are on IPv6? -- It [appears] that however certain forms of government are better calculated than others to protect individuals in the free exercise of their natural rights, and are at the same time themselves better guarded against degeneracy, yet experience [has] shown that, even under the best forms, those entrusted with power have, in time and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny. --Thomas Jefferson: Diffusion of Knowledge Bill, 1779 -- KPLUG-LPSG@kernel-panic.org http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-lpsg
