On 07/05/2006, at 8:25 AM, David Wood wrote:
Not sure how relevant this maybe but I followed this closely and
turned off IPV6..... I am on Firefox not using Safari.... result
was long time delays for downloads!
Hi David,
I didn't suggest anyone turn off IPV6, I suggested turning off RSS
Support in Safari to speed it up.
From what I understand about IPV6, which isn't very much, and I
welcome anybody to please inform me if I am incorrect.
IPv6 has encryption built into it, if it had been deployed rather
then IPv4 nobody would have needed to invent https, or ssh the old
easy protocols would have been fine. That is important because it
means people don't have to reinvent security for each and every
network protocol.
Because it has a very large address space ISPs that provide IPv6
don't charge extra for globally reachable static addresses (i.e. you
can run a server, and things like iChat AV work easier, so do P2P
type programs).
As another, about half of what Rendevous (Panther) & Bonjour (Tiger)
gives you was inspired by IPv6.
Also with IPv6 a 'stateless host auto configuration' mechanism is
mandatory. This is much simpler to use and manage than IPv4 DHCP.
Cheers,
Ronni
Car'n The Pies
