Re: IPv6 and the "average user"

Ingo Molnar (mingo@pc5829.hil.siemens.at)
Thu, 21 Nov 1996 12:47:00 +0100 (MET)


On Thu, 21 Nov 1996, Bas Mevissen wrote:

[...]

> BTW: Although it is a very big pain in the ..... to upgrade to IPv6 for
> everyone, we can use it's benifits: encryption and compression, these will
> ,along with others, being implemented in IPv6, I hope ?

the transition is smooth. We probably will see IPV4 hosts in 10 years as
well. [of course Linux 2.0 boxes which werent rebooted into IPV6 just for
the sake of the 10 years system uptime]

-- mingo