Re: IP security

[Darren Reed <darrenr () reed wattle id au>]

In some email I received from Sandy Green, sie wrote:
> I think that this would be an appropriate list to ask
> this question about IP security.
>
> when is and how would the shift to IP ver 6 start ?

It's starting.  The release of the next major version of the various
free BSD's will include IPv6 and IPsec.  Linux has support it as of
version 2.2. I believe you'll see some of the Unix vendors adopting
them in the next release cycle as well.  What the bunnies in Redmond
does, who knows ?  The only other people that matter are the router
vendors and I've not heard anything there.

> are there any IP ver 6 products out in the market,
> so that one could get a beta atleast. All major OS
> vendors would have to support IP ver 6. so in effect 
> all TCP/IP stacks would be IP ver 6 compatible( and 
> ofcourse be IP ver 4 compatible too).

IP Filter will support IPv6 before the turn of the century.

Darren