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Message-ID: <32481DBC.1D5E@603cs.croughton.af.mil> Date: Tue, 24 Sep 1996 17:43:24 -0100 From: "Scot W. Hetzel" <hetzels@croughton.af.mil> X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0Gold (Win95; U) MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: IPv6 for FreeBSD References: <199609231719.RAA24685@email.croughton.af.mil> <slrn54djfg.s90.olsenc@misha.ee.washington.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!cancer.vividnet.com!hunter.premier.net!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!dispatch.news.demon.net!demon!mail2news.demon.co.uk Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc X-NNTP-Posting-User: hetzels@email.croughton.af.mil X-Mail2News-Path: news.demon.net!email.croughton.af.mil!bnochd.croughton.af.mil Lines: 34 Clint Olsen wrote: > > 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. The article called IPv6: The next generation of TCP/IP networking did mention that IPv4 and IPv6 would co-exist for a while and that their would be Islands of IPv6 connected to IPv6-IPv4 Gateways. The article was put out by FTP Software http://www.ftp.com/mkt_info/ipv6.html Scot Hetzel