Subject: Re: INET6 in GENERIC
To: None <tech-kern@NetBSD.org>
From: Pavel Cahyna <pavel.cahyna@st.mff.cuni.cz>
List: tech-kern
Date: 02/20/2006 20:57:10
On Mon, Feb 20, 2006 at 01:53:13PM -0600, David Young wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 20, 2006 at 02:14:28PM -0500, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
> > In message <20060220190314.GD753@circe.entropie.net>, "Martin S. Weber" writes:
> >
> > >
> > >Rather the question should be, why is INET6 in GENERIC?
> > >
> > >(to achieve a deployment it doesn't have and never will ?)
> > >
> >
> > 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.
>
> Just to amplify what Steven is saying, it's no secret that Windows XP
> already supports IPv6 and one or more migration protocols (Teredo? 6to4?).
Both.
Pavel