IPv6 Interview Questions and critic

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From: "John Palmer" <nanog@adns.net>
Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2002 09:52:01 -0500
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From: "Joe Baptista" <baptista@dot-god.com>
To: <nanog@merit.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, August 27, 2002 09:41
Subject: IPv6 Interview Questions and critic

>
>
> Hi:
>
> I'm doing an article on IPv6 and am looking for comments - here is a
> portion on IPv6 which relates to the privacy issue ... any comments,
> crtics or interviews welcomed.
>
> -- snip
> As you know IPv6 is a suite of protocols for the network layer of the
> Internet which uses IPv4 gateways. It's purpose is to expand address
> space. At this time IPv6 comes prepackaged with all popular operating
> systems. This includes all flavours of unix , windows and Mac OS.

Windows? I don't think so, not yet anyways

Yes, Windows. Today. Now. But you must explicitly enable it at this
time.

I have been told that it will come enabled sith Windows XP SP2. I
don't know exactly when SP2 is scheduled for release.

R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
Energy Sciences Network (ESnet)
Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab)
E-mail: oberman@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634

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Kevin Oberman wrote:

Yes, Windows. Today. Now. But you must explicitly enable it at this
time.

The one that ships with Win XP is quite seriously broken in it's
resolver behaviour (you'll not be able to reach many IPv4 WWW
sites after enabling it) and additionally none of the Windows
services, which would make it useful within a corporate network,
are IPv6 enabled.

I have been told that it will come enabled sith Windows XP SP2. I
don't know exactly when SP2 is scheduled for release.

It would be nice if at that point one could get away with IPv6-only
intranet with IPv4 proxy/NAT to the outside. But I don't see that
happening with the rate of progress Windows has got anytime soon.

Pete