turning off IPv6

[Derek Broughton]

John DeCarlo wrote:

> On 7/5/06, Tony Arnold <tony.arnold at manchester.ac.uk> wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, 2006-07-05 at 12:53 -0400, John DeCarlo wrote:
>>
>> > Ideally, IPv4 should be disabled out of the box.  It shouldn't be
>> > needed anywhere, and it causes lots of problems today.
>>
>> I presume you mean IPv6! If so, what problems? I have three Dapper boxes
>> and I've not experienced any problems with IPv6.
>>
> 
> Why would anyone presume this?
> 
> Alexander understood my point.  There is no good reason today why people
> are still using IPv4.
> 
> Advocating the use of IPv4 is like advocating use of a CLI only.
> 
> It should be made clear that IPv4 is deprecated.

It's only deprecated by the technophiles who know what they're doing. 
Unfortunately, there are countless ISPs that don't provide IPv6 (mine
doesn't).
> 
> And I don't know why people seem to think more people use IPv4 than IPv6 -
> I haven't seen any actual data to support that.

I've seen no data either way - I just know ISPs that don't provide v6
gateways.

> In fact, the argument is the same if you said "why support routable IPv4
> addresses?  no one uses them any more, they all use NAT routers and
> private addresses"

My only _routeable_ address is IPv4 both on my network and at my client's.
-- 
derek