INET6 in world
Daniel C. Sobral
dcs at tcoip.com.br
Fri Aug 8 04:01:49 PDT 2003
Terry Lambert wrote:
>
>
> 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.
Err, not at all. You go to install/remove additional windows components
(I do not recall the exact phrasing) and select IPv6.
> 3) When you enable it, you get a huge scare warning about
> it being experimental.
I didn't. :-) And the bastard stopped doing A queries. :-)
> 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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