INET6 in world

[Daniel C. Sobral]

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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