Yesterday's Windows update causes IPv4 to be default

Olivier MJ Crepin-Leblond ocl at gih.com
Thu Nov 15 13:57:32 CET 2012


On 15/11/2012 12:38, Nick Hilliard wrote:
> sounds bizarre that windows is assuming that protocol stability operates on
> a 30 day basis.  What if ipv6 is tweaked up on day 1, then ipv6 goes down
> on day 2 because the corporate lan IT people doesn't know and doesn't care
> about ipv6, and the W8 end users find themselves experiencing 29 days of
> irritating timeouts?

I am both concerned and confused about this. What about people like me
who use a device called a *laptop* and travel around, connecting to all
sorts of networks in conferences, some being single stack and some dual
stack?
Baffled,

Olivier

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Olivier MJ Crépin-Leblond, PhD
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