Messages in this thread |  | | From | Bernd Eckenfels <> | Subject | Re: 2.4 and full ipv6 - will it happen? | Date | Wed, 21 Aug 2002 23:31:21 +0200 |
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In article <Pine.LNX.4.44.0208211316480.6621-100000@betelgeuse.compendium-tech.com> you wrote: > it. There are people who want to see it mainstreamed. Face it, IPv4 is > inadequate for today's needs. What happens when the entire IPv4 addressing > space is exhausted? Move to NAT? I don't think so.
Well, I think the worlds oil ressources will be exhausted before the IPv4 Space is exhausted. There are a lot of possible ways.
> requirement. NAT destroys that, and therefore makes those applications > either unusable, or difficult to use without special configurations.
well.. another option is, to write sane applications.
> No, IPv6 may not be mainstream yet, but there *are* people who want to use > it. Just because you don't, doesn't mean that nobody else should. I, for > one, will welcome IPv6's adoption with open arms.
i am using it on my personal family lan and to connect to irc servers, but I dont see it becoming mainstream this decade. Hell, even there is no accepted DNS standard, yet.
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