Mac OS X 10.7, still no DHCPv6

Owen DeLong owen at delong.com
Sun Feb 27 22:35:50 UTC 2011


On Feb 27, 2011, at 4:21 AM, Randy Bush wrote:

>>> You're going to have to perform stateless autconfiguration in ipv6
>>> and provide an ipv4 nameserver at the very minimum for a long time
>> apple is gonna look very very st00pid on world ipv6 day.  and a bunch
>> of folk are considering not turning things off after that day.
> 
> on second thought, guess where the support calls are gonna go.  our
> customer support lines, because we deliver zipless ipv6.
> 
> NOC: are you running a macintosh?
> User: yes, how did you guess?
> NOC: because it is broken.  get vista.
> 
> randy

While I'm as big a fan of IPv6 as anybody, I think in a comparison of
relative brokenness, Mac comes out quite favorably compared to
Vista in spite of their DHCPv6 deficiencies.

Owen





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