[49710] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Readiness for IPV6
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Matthew S. Hallacy)
Tue Jul 9 13:26:11 2002
Date: Tue, 9 Jul 2002 12:27:45 -0500
From: "Matthew S. Hallacy" <poptix@techmonkeys.org>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <20020709172805.N78977-100000@snow.fingers.co.za>; from fingers@fingers.co.za on Tue, Jul 09, 2002 at 05:32:02PM +0200
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Tue, Jul 09, 2002 at 05:32:02PM +0200, fingers wrote:
> i still find some of the stuff extremely user-unfriendly (winxp) for
> manual native configuation, and i'm sure other users do too. also, the
> amount of support for it is still sketchy (whether in the transport or
> from the applications themselves).
Yes, after trying to help a friend get IPv6 running on his WindowsXP
system (you have to drop into a DOS box.. (but they did away with DOS,
right?)), he decided it wasn't worth it if he had to do it that way.
At some point M$ might make it user friendly for the windows users but
at this point it's /not/ something that joe blow customer will be doing.
>
> Regards
>
> --Rob
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