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Re: Mac OS X 10.7, still no DHCPv6


From: Owen DeLong <owen () delong com>
Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2011 14:35:50 -0800


On Feb 27, 2011, at 4:21 AM, Randy Bush wrote:

You're going to have to perform stateless autconfiguration in ipv6
and provide an ipv4 nameserver at the very minimum for a long time
apple is gonna look very very st00pid on world ipv6 day.  and a bunch
of folk are considering not turning things off after that day.

on second thought, guess where the support calls are gonna go.  our
customer support lines, because we deliver zipless ipv6.

NOC: are you running a macintosh?
User: yes, how did you guess?
NOC: because it is broken.  get vista.

randy

While I'm as big a fan of IPv6 as anybody, I think in a comparison of
relative brokenness, Mac comes out quite favorably compared to
Vista in spite of their DHCPv6 deficiencies.

Owen



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