"Daniel C. Sobral" wrote:
> Terry Lambert wrote:
> > He apparently doesn't understand that v6/v4 NATs and proxy servers
> > would let him deploy today ...assuming that the Windows stack was
> > there.
>
> What do you mean "the Windows stack was there"? XP supports IPv6, as
> long as you install it, so I assume there's something missing *in* XP's
> IPv6 support. What is it?
1) Machines do not ship with it enabled by default; a
Windows user has about as much probability of doing
the necessary work to enable it as they do of making
something other than Internet Explorer their default
browser.
2) You have to go to a command line prompt and issue a
cryptic command to enable it at all.
3) When you enable it, you get a huge scare warning about
it being experimental.
4) 95% of the existing Windows machines in the world are
not running XP, and the last time I saw the code for
Windows 95/98 IPv6 support was the Summer of 2000; they
took it down from their site after that.
5) AFAIK, it still doesn't support key exchange, so you
have to manually configure the keys, which is a really
difficult and tedious process, and won't work with any
embedded device that depend on key exchange working
(e.g. thing NAT gateways, etc.).
6) The last time I tried the "experimental" version, it did
not correctly interoperate with AIX or FreeBSD, but worked
fine Windows-to-Windows, so they've done *something* to it
to embrace and extend it.
In short: "It's not ready for Prime Time".
-- Terry
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