Some critics about Ubuntu

[Tollef Fog Heen]

* Matt Zimmerman 

| On Mon, Nov 29, 2004 at 10:55:42AM +0000, Colin Watson wrote:
| 
| > On Mon, Nov 29, 2004 at 09:05:44AM +0100, debian_noob at web.de wrote:
| > > 4) Network: As I read on the user mailing list a lot of people have
| > > difficulties with IPv6 loaded on startup. Please make a normal install
| > > with "disabled IPv6".
| > 
| > If possible, we'd much rather fix the problems than paper over them.
| 
| Unfortunately, it appears that the bugs are in various consumer electronics
| components (wireless access points, cablemodems, etc.) rather than in
| Ubuntu, so I'm not sure that we can do much about the root of the problem.
| 
| Probably the best we could do would be to recognise this situation and give
| up faster.

Not setting up any IPv6 default route if we only have a link-local
address would be even better. :)

For some reason, the ipv6 module gives me:

default dev eth1  proto kernel  metric 256  mtu 1500 advmss 1440 metric10 64

just by being loaded.  It shouldn't, IMHO.

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