On Tue, 2016-09-13 at 20:18 +0000, Rustad, Mark D wrote: > Greg <gvrose8...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Someday Linux will be a modern OS that just includes IPV6 and forces a > > config option to NOT have it. > > > > That'll be great. All the IS_ENABLED_(CONFIG_IPV6) scattered everywhere > > is nuts. > > > > </editorial comment> > > Better wait until everyone at least *has* IPv6! I have yet to have IPv6 > deployed on any of my employer's networks or get IPv6 service from any ISP > at my home. When I was at Apple in the 90's I was told that Apple needed > IPv6 by next year or "we were dead". Well Apple nearly died, but IPv6 had > nothing to do with that! And I still haven't experienced an IPv6 > deployment! Yeah, I have run it a bit point-to-point to resolve technical > issues, but that isn't a "deployment" and not very interesting. > > As much as we would like things to move faster, much of the world just > doesn't. Witness the e1000 discussion today for example. Hardware doesn't > vanish overnight, and I know that my ISP has a network full of CPE that > doesn't do IPv6, so I'm not expecting their status to change any time soon.
Well that's why we can have a configuration to turn it off... But yeah. /pipedream - Greg > > It would be great though. > </pipedream> > > -- > Mark Rustad, Networking Division, Intel Corporation
