IPv6?

[rodney at sabletech.com (Rodney Thayer)]

what's the magic to get on netdev?

At 04:21 PM 4/15/97 -0400, you wrote:
>On Sun, 13 Apr 1997 msoule at ix.netcom.com wrote:
>
>> Hi john,
>> 
>> 	so what's IPv6?
>
>The current Internet protocol (IPv4) is running out of space. For the past
>few years, the IETF has been working on proposals for a replacement, which
>is now being called IPv6. Whereas IPv4 addresses are 32 bits long, IPv6
>addresses are 128 bits long. IPv6 also has a number of additional features
>to support encryption at the network level, and to handle realtime
>processes such as video.
>
>There's been a lot of activity on NETDEV, a mailing list for developers of
>IPv6 for Linux. A lot of this is being developed in the 2.1.x Linux
>kernels, and I thought it would be a good topic for our group to cover.
>
>> 	How'd the afternoon go? did we sell anything else?
>
>No, I'm afraid we had nothing left to sell. Didn't you take the box of
>goodies with you when you left?
>
>> 	I'd like to see if we could get a nice looking banner made up if
>> there's any extra money after the installfest. It'd help when we do the 
>> shows.
>
>Sure, that would be nice. Have you checked around to see what that would
>cost?
>
>> 	bottom line on what we'd collected when I left is that Red Hat is
>> paid off and the $250 for the rooms is just about paid off... that makes
>> me feel a whole lot better considering these bills are on my credit
>> card. 
>> 
>> 	BTW,  yesterday I finaly got around to linux again... started up
>> xwindows under root.  Tried to start up minicom from the dropdown menu
>> but there was no response. Does that mean it's not installed?  how do I
>> check for package installations?   
>
>"rpm -q minicom" will tell you if minicom is installed. I don't generally
>use those menus, and when I looked just now I didn't see minicom mentioned
>anywhere. What menu are you seeing it in? Can you run minicom from within
>a shell window?
>
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