Subject: INET6 in GENERIC
To: Martin S. Weber <Ephaeton@gmx.net>
From: Steven M. Bellovin <smb@cs.columbia.edu>
List: tech-kern
Date: 02/20/2006 14:14:28
In message <20060220190314.GD753@circe.entropie.net>, "Martin S. Weber" writes:
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>Rather the question should be, why is INET6 in GENERIC?
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>(to achieve a deployment it doesn't have and never will ?)
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I'm probably going to regret posting this...
A certain large vendor in the upper-left corner of the US is strongly
committed to IPv6. Its next release, Vista, will *prefer* v6
connections if they're available. Rumor has it that their future plans
*really* need v6. We're better off beating on our stack now,
especially anything to do with operating in a mixed environment.
--Steven M. Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb