On Thu, Jan 03, 2002 at 10:11:26PM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: | on Thu, Jan 03, 2002 at 11:59:54AM -0500, dman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: | > On Thu, Jan 03, 2002 at 01:59:22PM -0200, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: | > | Hi! | > | In order to use networking in a LAN do I need the IPv4 protocol? | > | > Not necessarily. | | Yes, absolutely. | | localhost is given in IPv4.
Really? What about "::1"? He could use just IPv6 if he wanted to. (note: I know very little about IPv6, but I've seen ::1 included in some config files as the IPv6 equivalent of 127.0.0.1) | There's an awful lot of networking that happens on localhost. X for | starters. | | Unix and networking are pretty much joined at the hip, head, toe, and | everywhere in between. Yeah, but networking != IPv4. There are other protocols as well :-). Having said all this, though, personally I would still include IPv4 on all my systems. -D -- Windows, hmmm, does it come with a GUI interface that works or just pretty blue screens?
