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#! rnews 1344 bsd Message-ID: <199609231719.RAA24685@email.croughton.af.mil> From: "Scot W. Hetzel" <hetzels@croughton.af.mil> Subject: IPv6 for FreeBSD Date: Mon, 23 Sep 1996 17:19:01 +0100 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Priority: 3 X-Mailer: Microsoft Internet Mail 4.70.1155 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!cancer.vividnet.com!hunter.premier.net!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!howland.erols.net!EU.net!usenet2.news.uk.psi.net!uknet!usenet1.news.uk.psi.net!uknet!dispatch.news.demon.net!demon!mail2news.demon.co.uk Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc X-NNTP-Posting-User: hetzels@email.croughton.af.mil X-Mail2News-Path: news.demon.net!email.croughton.af.mil!bnochd.croughton.af.mil Lines: 16 I just read in an article that the Internet will be changing the IP addresses within the next 2 years from 32 bits to 128 bits to accomadate the ever increasing number of new hosts? The article identified the following RFC's for IPv6: RFC 1752 "The Recommendation for the IP Next Generation Protocol" RFC 1933 "Simple Internet Transition Mechanism" When can we expect IPv6 to be implemented in FreeBSD? Will It be available in 2.2 or 2.3? Scot W. Hetzel