On Thu, 2011-01-06 at 21:29 -0500, James Knott wrote:
Hans Witvliet wrote:
Or a website from the other part of the world: http://www.kame.net/ Different view from either v4 or v6
That ipv6.google.com is IPv6 only, so you can't reach it, if IPv6 isn't available to you.
It is bad that there is a dedicated ping6, traceroute6 or ip6table. Like web-browsers, ssh and rsync it should be transparant to the user.
Those are tools used to test networking, so you have to be able to specify either IPv4 or IPv6 when using them. On the other hand, things like ssh and browsers use whatever address type is available, but generally prefer IPv6.
Well, the point i was making, is that some commands/servicse are v4/v6 agnostic. You can force them with a switch on the cli, like -4 or -6. That is as it should be, keeping the difference at a minimum for "end users" I'm very glad that asterisk supports v6 since version 1.8, but a lot of work is still to be done. Openvpn (currently at 2.1) will release their support for v6 in 2.3, probably somewhere Q2 or Q3, so that will probably means that strongswan will get more attention, as they support v6 for quite a while. And there are other product that afaics don't make any effort at all, like mysql. Allthough one might debate that databases should only be accessed via link-local... hw -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org