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Re: Big day for IPv6 - 1% native penetration

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mikael Abrahamsson)
Tue Nov 27 02:38:38 2012

Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2012 08:38:13 +0100 (CET)
From: Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike@swm.pp.se>
To: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
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On Tue, 27 Nov 2012, Mark Andrews wrote:

>> The main problem with IPv6 only is that most app developers (most
>> programmers totally) do not really have access to this, so no testing is
>> being done.
>
> IPv6 only is easy to setup if you already have dual stack.
>
> On my Mac it is "System Preferences", "Network Preferences",
> "Advanced", "TCP/IP", "IPv4 -> Off" then reboot to clear any lingering
> IPv4 references.
>
> It's about as easy on a Linux and a *BSD box.

Well, they don't really have access to dual stack either, so...

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Mikael Abrahamsson    email: swmike@swm.pp.se


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