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Re: IPv6 Interview Questions and critic

  • From: Petri Helenius
  • Date: Tue Aug 27 14:20:45 2002 
Kevin Oberman wrote:

> Yes, Windows. Today. Now. But you must explicitly enable it at this
> time.
> 
The one that ships with Win XP is quite seriously broken in it's 
resolver behaviour (you'll not be able to reach many IPv4 WWW
sites after enabling it) and additionally none of the Windows
services, which would make it useful within a corporate network,
are IPv6 enabled.

> I have been told that it will come enabled sith Windows XP SP2. I
> don't know exactly when SP2 is scheduled for release.

It would be nice if at that point one could get away with IPv6-only 
intranet with IPv4 proxy/NAT to the outside. But I don't see that
happening with the rate of progress Windows has got anytime soon.

Pete

> 
> R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
> Energy Sciences Network (ESnet)
> Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab)
> E-mail: [email protected]                  Phone: +1 510 486-8634