Lets make sure this does not become a bash Apple affair.
Apple's airport is the only WiFi hardware I have had that has not stopped
working within 9 months due to shoddy manufacture. I have had every brand
you can name and every one failed in the same way, connections became flaky
and then the router started requiring regular resets.
Hang on a moment, the rant is relevant to the IPv6 transition
When I mentioned the hardware issue to a certain tech savy person known to
us all they reported having no problems at all with their routers. Then I
watched them using said router and rebooting it without noticing they had
done it.
Can be made to work for a geek is a much lower bar than the one we face
here. The premise is that we need IPv6 transition because we have the
billions of users. It has to work absolutely flawlessly to be useful.
On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 7:38 AM, Sabahattin Gucukoglu <
mail(_at_)sabahattin-gucukoglu(_dot_)com> wrote:
Just in case someone here wants to take sides, have a look at this thread
on the IPv6 discussion list at Apple:
http://lists.apple.com/archives/ipv6-dev/2010/Jun/msg00000.html
(the thread actually goes back earlier than that, but I can't be bothered
going looking for it because I can't stand that awful PiperMail interface)
Summary: it is a problem for some people, notably content providers, that
connectivity losses result from a preference to use (advertised) v6 routes.
Mac OS X, in particular, has this habit of treating even the commonplace
6to4 routes, which of course fail occasionally for a number of reasons, just
as native IPv6, and preferring them. It has no address selection table, so
it will flunk even when IPv4 would have worked fine, i.e., will not treat
common v4-NAT environment as global scope.
My take: it's not their fault. Transition mechanisms must improve, because
they're needed even into the IPv4 twilight. However, it's been noted before
that an API for selection of the protocol based on application requirements
is a solution to this particular paradox, and I agree with that.
Cheers,
Sabahattin
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