On Wed, 2008-03-05 at 15:46 +0100, Ruben van Staveren wrote: > On 5 Mar 2008, at 15:32, Mark Andrews wrote: > > >> - IPv6 provides almost no technological upgrades beyond additional > >> address > >> space. DHCP addressed the auto configuration feature, VPNs addressed > >> IPsec. > > > > That extra address space really is a big advantage. It > > really is so much better to be able to get to machines you > > need to without have to manually setup application relays > > because you couldn't get enough address space to be able > > to globally address everything want to. > > Please see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_y36fG2Oba0 > > This song exactly explains why you should care about IPv6 :) > > I don't get this "anti IPv6" behaviour. If people are not willing to > adopt it, it will not get tested which in turn will make other people > hesitating to jump on the bandwagon. Having it compiled in your system > does not cause harm if you don't configure it and for everything else > there are traffic filters. Just like IPv4. > > - Ruben
Sorry to stir a hornets nest, but this[1] is why people have a distrust of IPv6. This clearly is not a failing of IPv6, but it would still catch people out who do not use IPv6, but have it enabled as part of a 'default' configuration. If you don't use something at all, the chance of it having or exposing some semi-related bug is not worth the risk. [1] http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=5422+0 +current/freebsd-announce
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