On 12/03/02 12:35 +0530, Shridhar Daithankar wrote: > On 11 Mar 2002 at 23:14, Devdas Bhagat wrote: > > Though, we should be moving to ipv6, or further. > > I heard some things about ipv6. > > 1)Micrsoft has poor support in any versions older than W2K and client app. > support is not very good. MS is barely providing eXPerimental support for IPV6 in XP. Win2K is definitely unstable.
> 2)Many routers used today are not ipv6 compliant so router companies like CISCO > will slow down the migration. Cisco supports ipv6 now, as does Juniper. They will push for ipv6. Most large ISPs, on the other hand will not (given that they will lose a major part of income from allocating static ip addresses) > 3)Not many software support ipv6 across all software, again especially client > side.. Ummmm? And exactly why should any application be using an ip stack separate from the OS stack? The IP address issue should be transparent to the application. Only the resolver and stack have to worry about that. VPNs should not be needed (compulsory crypto), and pcap already supports ipv6. > I am sure it's not going to get picked up overnight and even if we have > zillions of ip addresses under any scheme, we should better use them wisely.. Yeah. Devdas Bhagat _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
