Petition for disabling IPv6 in the standard installation

Paul M Edwards <pauledwards at gmail.com> schrieb am 09.11.05 11:01:05:
> 
> Define "slow connection" with solid numeric metrics.

If you can tell me how I can give you solid numeric metrics
I will do it right now.

> Give info on your networking hardware; could be a device driver issue.

Sir, here in Germany, there is a big Debian forum. I think you cannot speak
German, so believe me just, that there many questions regarding
slow IPv6 connections in Mozilla. 
And i don´t believe that every user there has the same card as I have.
 
> Paul
> 
> 
> 
> On 11/9/05, Rick Rocker <debian_noob at web.de> wrote:
> >
> >
> > Dear devs of Ubuntu,
> >
> > I live in a industry state(Germany) and I use one of the
> > most known ISPs. I am a average-Joe-user and all
> > my friends are also average-Joe-users.
> > This I write to give "my" problem a broader context: IPv6
> > in the standard installation activated.
> >
> > I have no IPv6 hardware, my friends have no IPv6 hardware,
> > and as I know the ISPs of Germany have also not IPv6 "activated".
> >
> > Can you please deactivate IPv6 from the standard installation?
> >
> > Every new installation of Debian(Ubuntu) gives at first a very
> > slow connection until the average-Joe-user goes and removes
> > the ipv6 modules and deactivates the ipv6 usage in Mozilla.
> >
> > What I does not understand is why is it activated as there is
> > very little support of this thing!?
> >
> > That Debian has it activated I can understand because they make
> > a distro for everyone (admins, devs, users) but I does not understand
> > it in the Ubuntu case as this is a distro for Joe-average, isn´t it?
> >
> > And see it from this side: If someone today needs IPv6 then this person
> > is something like a admin or a developer, he will know how to activate it
> > after the standard install. All other persons (I think) does not know
> > how to disactivate it AND does not need it AND all they get is a slow
> > connection.
> >
> > Can you, please, remove this from the standard install?
> >
> > Thanks for your work
> > your humble
> > debian_noob


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