[51426] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IPv6 Interview Questions and critic
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kevin Oberman)
Tue Aug 27 12:19:12 2002
To: "John Palmer" <nanog@adns.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 27 Aug 2002 09:52:01 CDT."
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Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2002 09:16:28 -0700
From: "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
> From: "John Palmer" <nanog@adns.net>
> Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2002 09:52:01 -0500
> Sender: owner-nanog@merit.edu
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Joe Baptista" <baptista@dot-god.com>
> To: <nanog@merit.edu>
> Sent: Tuesday, August 27, 2002 09:41
> Subject: IPv6 Interview Questions and critic
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> >
> >
> > Hi:
> >
> > I'm doing an article on IPv6 and am looking for comments - here is a
> > portion on IPv6 which relates to the privacy issue ... any comments,
> > crtics or interviews welcomed.
> >
> > -- snip
> > As you know IPv6 is a suite of protocols for the network layer of the
> > Internet which uses IPv4 gateways. It's purpose is to expand address
> > space. At this time IPv6 comes prepackaged with all popular operating
> > systems. This includes all flavours of unix , windows and Mac OS.
>
> Windows? I don't think so, not yet anyways
Yes, Windows. Today. Now. But you must explicitly enable it at this
time.
I have been told that it will come enabled sith Windows XP SP2. I
don't know exactly when SP2 is scheduled for release.
R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
Energy Sciences Network (ESnet)
Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab)
E-mail: oberman@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634
