IPv6?

[jabr at tarnhelm.blu.org (John Abreau)]

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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