IPv6 Interview Questions and critic

Tue Aug 27 16:16:28 UTC 2002

> From: "John Palmer" <nanog at adns.net>
> Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2002 09:52:01 -0500
> Sender: owner-nanog at merit.edu
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Joe Baptista" <baptista at dot-god.com>
> To: <nanog at 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 at es.net			Phone: +1 510 486-8634