Jonathan Stone <jonathan@DSG.Stanford.EDU> writes:
> Some people within the NetBSD community have suggested that
> NetBSD no longer needs to support IPv4-only configurations.

I don't think anyone has seriously suggested that. It was suggested
that it was okay to make the default sendmail config assume a GENERIC
kernel, which has v6 in it, but even that idea has been abandoned.

> >I don't know exactly what's being proposed, but I can't imagine anyone
> >is proposing to do anything to prevent the continued use of IPv4 on
> >NetBSD systems.  
> 
> That depends on whether you mean IPv6-plus-IPv4 "dual stack" setups,
> or IPv4-only setups.  People have been  breaking the latter,

No one has broken the latter. All that happened was that there was a
line in a sendmail config that, prior to some hacking done in the last
24 hours, would have had to have been commented out on a v4 only
box. This isn't "breaking v4 only setups". I can't think of anything
else that has happened like it, even.

> And I'm sorry to be the bearer of ill-wind, but yes, as it happens, I
> do seem to be meeting more and more people who see IPv6 actually
> diplacing of IPv4 as increasingly unlikely.

I find it increasingly likely -- there are now v6 implementations for
all major routers, and most OSes of importance (including
windows). This was NOT the case up until recently. It is now,
therefore, possible to actually run in a v6 world.

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Perry Metzger		perry@piermont.com
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