On Thu, Feb 04, 2010 at 08:40:25AM +1030, Mark Smith wrote: > On Wed, 3 Feb 2010 16:15:30 +0100 > Phil Regnauld <regna...@nsrc.org> wrote: > > > Nick Hilliard (nick) writes: > > > > > > There is a FAQ entry for ipv6 support in ipplan: > > > > > > > One feature request that comes up from time to time is IPv6. Adding IPv6 > > > > support will require major effort but has such a limited audience. > > > > Ironically the only people that ever requested IPv6 support are either > > > > from Telcos, ISP?s or government departments, yet they are never > > > > interested in contributing resources! I deam them parasites of the Open > > > > Source world - leaching off the good will and effort of the Open Source > > > > community, yet give nothing in return. > > > > Shame. And "deam" is "deem". > > > > > q.v. http://iptrack.sourceforge.net/doku.php?id=faq > > > > > > I guess we're all entitled to our opinions. > > > > Yeah, sad. > > > > > I think that if he didn't want commercial organisations to use his > software, he shouldn't have chosen a licence that permits them to (the > GPL according to the home page). If that's his attitude to possible > future contributors and to IPv6, then it seems to me that iptrack has > jumped the shark. > It sounds far more like that's his attitude to those who keep annoying him about supporting something he doesn't care about, without actually contributing anything useful to the project.
> > > The data model used in ipplan is to enumerate all IP addresses in the > > > working ranges. This works fine for ipv4, but obviously breaks horribly > > > for ipv6. Political considerations aside, I suspect that this is at least > > > some of the reason that ipplan doesn't support it. > > > > It would indeed require a very large screen and lots of memory :) > > > > Cheers, > > Phil > > > > -- --
