Re: [Shorewall-devel] Shorewall and IPV6

[Paul G. <pa...@ge...>]

Tom Eastep wrote:
> ...
>>Tom, may be we should have a intermediate version where all these ":"
>>separators go away as a preparatory for ipv6.   
>>...
> The problem is that many people don't read release notes -- they install
> version 1.2 of some software package then three years later upgrade
> straight to version 27.3 without reading a word. While one can argue
> that this is their problem, not ours, it increases our support load
> none-the-less.
> 
> Also, IPV6 adoption is not very rapid -- making people change their
> configurations when it gains them nothing is bad practice.

There is going to be a lot of pain in the upgrade to IPv6 anyway - i 
think preparing people by getting them used to the fact that colon can't 
be a separator any more is a "good thing".

I would view this something like the "hair principle": the amount of 
hairy code in any given software system is constant - it's just a matter 
of whether it's spread out or concentrated in one place.  Thus my 
networking corollary to this principle reads: the amount of pain in any 
network addressing change is constant - it's just a matter of whether 
it's spread out or concentrated in one place.

Personally, i prefer spreading the hairy code and spreading the pain - 
it makes the individual hairballs and stabs of pain easier to 
understand/deal with.  :-)

-- 
Paul
<http://paulgear.webhop.net>
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