Re: Comcast has IPv6, when will Debian?
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On Wed, Feb 11, 2004 at 10:46:36PM -0500, No Spam wrote:
> How about a decentralized P2P using IPv6 tunneling? I realize that it is
> not a userspace daemon, but it's worth thinking about. I use comcast at
> home; maybe I'll have a 6 number soon.
I got an email from them telling me that they gave us more bandwidth
and to powercycle the modem. So I did. And now I've got an ip6
address in ifconfig on eth0.
> If that's the case, then I'm gonna hammer my providers for 6 on my
> networks, and go sshd -6 only. There may be tunneling aspects to
> take advantage of for VPN. I really have not thought about it too
> much.
I understand ip6 is designed to be considerably better about
security. Time will only tell if it works out in reality, though.
> I'll need to upgrade the firmware in my portmasters for 6, if it's
> available. Lots to think about. Lots to do.
You knew this was coming. You were warned. 8:o) Were you thinking
about any of this in advance?
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.''`. Paul Johnson <baloo@ursine.ca>
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