https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=685627
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=685627#c9
--- Comment #9 from john woodhouse 2011-05-24 16:54:43 UTC ---
I may as well add that for one reason or another I was poking about on windoze
vista the other day. Guess what it can choose to use ipv6 or ipv4 according to
performance and of course this is post install. This looks to be done on the
fly so it can switch at any time.
Opensuse may have been the first to release ipv6 functionality many moons ago
but it clearly isn't really ipv6 ready on this basis.
Suse.de released and ungraded all users to ipv6. The result was that many users
had no web access at all. Mine worked but oh so very very slowly. At the time
they mentioned tunneling and it looks like my isp does support it but it's a
lot slower these days.
There is a very recent .gov.uk paper pointing out that there are so few ipv6
servers about that full roll out will probably take at least a further 2 years.
It also points out that as far as many isp's are concerned there is no need to
change to ipv6 as they can manage more users in other ways. I assume this means
that they will use sub net techniques just as a single ip can service many pc's
on the users end of the line.
So putting it bluntly an install fix is just a patch really as at some point it
will roll out and probably while ipv4 is still in use. Windoze looks to be able
to cope now. Lixux can't.
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