Ok, I’ll only discard the irate part ;-] I had not considered the extra work and code required to maintain both versions. But I get it now. Here is the unfortunate position this puts us in:
We use OpenVPN for connection from 1000’s of devices located at customer facilities back to us. These devices/software have a lifespan of greater than 10 years and most are extremely expensive (not easily replaced). So a large quantity are incapable of ipv6 (and frankly many customer facility networks are not fully functional with ipv6). Also some of the devices/software at our end that interface with those legacy customer devices are also not ipv6 capable. So if OpenVPN lost ipv4 support anytime soon, we would be in a world of hurt. There is much more detail about all this, but I wanted to keep this a short email. Thanks for listening. Marvin > On Apr 1, 2018, at 11:39 AM, Gert Doering <g...@greenie.muc.de> wrote: > > Hi, > >> On Sun, Apr 01, 2018 at 11:19:57AM -0700, Marvin Adeff wrote: >> Think of us poor mail list lurkers. Practically gave this one a heart >> attack! Not having seen that private reply, I hope that means I can discard >> the long-ass (and quite irate) reply I was working on? > > Please share! > >> (Sent from an ipv4 address) > > Whatever journey OpenVPN takes, the Internet as a whole will need to > either finish the move to IPv6, or give up and return to IPv4-only - > running dual-stack is just too expensive in the long run. Like, twice > the amount of code needed for routing, address parsing, firewalling, ... > > gert > -- > "If was one thing all people took for granted, was conviction that if you > feed honest figures into a computer, honest figures come out. Never doubted > it myself till I met a computer with a sense of humor." > Robert A. Heinlein, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress > > Gert Doering - Munich, Germany g...@greenie.muc.de ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Openvpn-devel mailing list Openvpn-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/openvpn-devel
