Subject: Re: INET6 in GENERIC
To: Steven M. Bellovin <smb@cs.columbia.edu>
From: None <jonathan@dsg.stanford.edu>
List: tech-kern
Date: 02/20/2006 11:20:32
In message <20060220191428.1832E3BFC82@berkshire.machshav.com>,
"Steven M. Bellovin" writes:
>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, in all honesty, that's got to be the most compelling
argument for turning our IPv6 support into a loadable module
that I've heard to date.