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Subject: Re: Anybody Using IPv6?
Date: Sat, 17 May 2025 15:13:28 -0300
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On 17 May 2025 18:01:35 GMT, vallor <vallor@cultnix.org> wrote:

>On Thu, 15 May 2025 18:42:47 +0000, Farley Flud <ff@linux.rocks> wrote in
><pan$e6d88$f019cb49$2e3cccf9$253bfbf1@linux.rocks>:
>
>> GNU/Linux has total IPv6 capabilities but this is also fully
>> configurable.
>> 
>> Since I operate a standalone workstation that is only connected to the
>> Internet via Comcast, my system and software configuration only includes
>> IPv4.  (My local network certainly does not require it.)
>> 
>> IOW, I don't need IPv6 and therefore I exclude it.
>> 
>> Does anybody use or need IPv6?
>> 
>> I suppose that since the vast majority of GNU/Linux users depend on a
>> distro and that since most distros automatically enable IPv6 the answer
>> is that most users have IPv6 enabled whether they need it or not.
>
>(It's considered good netiquette to announce a followup-to when
>crossposting.  Please consider doing that in the future.)

	I didn't notice the OP had set a follow up to COLA. Had I
noticed I wouldn't have replied....
	COLA is Troll-Land.
	[]'s
>
> _ _ _ _ _ _ _
>$ ping -c 1 news.eternal-september.org
>PING news.eternal-september.org (2a01:4f9:4b:44c2::2) 56 data bytes
>64 bytes from news.eternal-september.org (2a01:4f9:4b:44c2::2): icmp_seq=1 
>ttl=47 time=174 ms
>
>--- news.eternal-september.org ping statistics ---
>1 packets transmitted, 1 received, 0% packet loss, time 0ms
>rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 174.342/174.342/174.342/0.000 ms
> _ _ _ _ _ _ _
>
>IPv6 is the future.  I think more and more people are using it,
>since their equipment and clients "just work" with it.
>
>(There is a learning curve, though -- but there was with IPv4 too.)
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