Daniele Nicolucci (Jollino) wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Sabato, luglio 27, 2002, alle 04:53 , Mark Liu ha scritto: > > [...] > > Yes, this is also a good idea. > [...] > > I think that the real problem is "when will we able to really > use ipv6?". > Many OSes support IPv6, but the probably most used OS in a desktop > environment does not. I'm talking about MS-Windows 98 (and > possibly 95 > too).
http://www.trumpet.com.au/winsock/winsoc5.html Trumpet Winsock v5.0 is a fully-featured 32-bit dialler used with Windows 95/98 and Windows NT and comrising of IPv6 capabilities. Next question ;) <SNIP> > if MS shipped an official patch for Windows 98 to allow a decent ipv6 > support, with automatic 6to4 and everything, we would see many sites > adding ipv6 connectivity and maybe switching completely to ipv6. But > this will happen in a long time, when most "home users" will have > Windows XP happily installed and won't even know about this > strange ipv6 thing. There isn't a _production_ stack for NT/2000/XP either from MS... The .Net stack _will_ be production quality, even though the others (including Trumpet's) work just fine... > Look at it from the provider's point of view. I represent a company, and > I want as much visibility on the net as possible. Since most of my > target is using a non-ipv6-compatible operating system, I > -must- provide > my service on ipv4 connectivity, and -possibly- on ipv6 too. But why > bother, then? Would my services have more visibility for home > users if I allowed them to reach my services via ipv6? No, not really, > since most of them don't even know why a dvd holds much more data than a > cd. Chicken and egg problem, big corporations/organisations/universities didn't want to come of their IPX/SAP/DECNET etc protocols either... it's just a matter of time. > I am > service provider, and I'm not into experiments, so I won't use ipv6. That's your choice ;) Nobody is forcing you. > And therefore, since most of the services are reachable only by ipv4 > connectivity, new "productivity" (i.e. non "experimental") services > won't come out with ipv6 connectivity. And if they were, like the > gnutella thing, very few people would use it, since under w98 > wouldn't allow it, and this would turn out into a negative spyral. Trumpet is ringing.... and they have been for over a couple of years now. > Now, I'm not a programmer; or at least, I wouldn't be able to > help about this. So I'm asking this mailing list: is it really so difficult to > implement an ipv6 stack for windows 98 which works on every machine, > even if it hasn't got a network interface card? This would be a nice > challenge for the open-source world, and the benefits would > be enormous, allowing the 6bone to become a full and real "6internet". If maybe you did actually even used it once you would know that there is no '6internet' There is simply _1_ internet that's why it's called an internet. Greets, Jeroen --------------------------------------------------------------------- The IPv6 Users Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe users" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
