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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!metro!metro!asstdc.scgt.oz.au!nsw.news.telstra.net!act.news.telstra.net!psgrain!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!news.mathworks.com!uunet!in2.uu.net!news.u.washington.edu!olsenc From: olsenc@kodiak.ee.washington.edu (Clint Olsen) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: IPv6 for FreeBSD Date: 23 Sep 1996 17:50:44 GMT Organization: University of Washington, Seattle, WA Lines: 25 Message-ID: <slrn54djfg.s90.olsenc@misha.ee.washington.edu> References: <199609231719.RAA24685@email.croughton.af.mil> NNTP-Posting-Host: misha.ee.washington.edu NNTP-Posting-User: olsenc X-Newsreader: slrn (0.9.0.0 (BETA) UNIX) On Mon, 23 Sep 1996 17:19:01 +0100, Scot W. Hetzel wrote: >I just read in an article that the Internet will be changing the IP >addresses within >the next 2 years from 32 bits to 128 bits to accomadate the ever increasing >number >of new hosts? > >The article identified the following RFC's for IPv6: > >RFC 1752 "The Recommendation for the IP Next Generation Protocol" >RFC 1933 "Simple Internet Transition Mechanism" > > When can we expect IPv6 to be implemented in FreeBSD? > Will It be available in 2.2 or 2.3? Well, I would suspect the transition to be a slow and painful one. I don't think it will be as easy as "flicking a switch." Does anyone know how such a transition can be made without detrimental effects? I have not read the RFCs for this, and I suspect that it contains a discussion of the transition. Does anyone care what to think and how it will go? -Clint -- Clint Olsen <olsenc@kodiak.ee.washington.edu> No unsolicited email.