Hi Bart, What I was thinking was that IPV6 means more than just setting up your servers and your home routers differently. The IPV6 conference, I think, was focused on the fact that we have to go there because of the numbers. There is more to IPv6 than a massive number space. What else does IPv6 do for us? What apps are going to give us more because they will be able to use IPv6? What work will developers have to put in to make it happen? Are there any apps out there now that can take advantage of the other parts of IPv6? Maybe I am a couple of years too early. :-) Or maybe there are games or collaboration tools out there now that will take advantage of IPv6. There may be a killer app for IPv6 that will cause your business to implement it internally. Whadaya think? :-) or maybe I'm utterly wrong and it's just a numbers game. At least today. Anyway - just looking for cool themes for our meetings. If IPv6 (after configuration) doesn't fly as a theme, we could definitely use your IPv6 network stack in a programming theme night. Anyone wanat to talk about programming 'dbus'? This is a programming topic that can be used at the command line level by fairly new command line users, including Eric. ;-) Other cool themes welcome! Rob >________________________________ >From: Bart Trojanowski <bart [ at ] jukie [ dot ] ca> >To: Rob Echlin <rob [ at ] echlin [ dot ] ca> >Cc: linux_lists.oclug.on.ca <linux [ at ] lists [ dot ] oclug [ dot ] on [ dot ] ca> >Sent: Tuesday, July 12, 2011 2:16:57 PM >Subject: Re: [OCLUG-Tech] ipv6 - the rest of the story > >I gave a talk for OCLUG in 2001 on socket programming. I was able to >find the material... > >http://www.jukie.net/~bart/slides/socket-intro/socket-intro.ps.gz > >IPv6 was mentioned, but not in great detail. If there was really >interest in a programming talk, I could clean these slides up and >update them for IPv6. > >-Bart > >On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 14:10, Bart Trojanowski <bart [ at ] jukie [ dot ] ca> wrote: >> I, or better yet MCR, could talk to some of these questions. >> >> WRT programming, it all depends on the language really. Networking >> abstractions differ a lot from language to language. >> >> I could talk briefly about BSD socket interface (ie libc support for IPv6). >> >> -Bart >> >> On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 14:02, Rob Echlin <rob [ at ] echlin [ dot ] ca> wrote: >>> Hi >>> Topics for OCLUG presentations about IPv6? >>> >>> Programming - Maybe we could add IPV6 to an evening of programming talks? >>> >>> - If you program against IPv6, do you need to do anything different, or is it just the same? >>> - Is there anything we need to know about all those extra IP addresses and ports, as software developers? >>> - Any special libraries we should know about? >>> - Any different techniques for network based software? >>> - any more reserved ports or ranges under IPv6? >>> >>> >>> Software available >>> - is there any user-level software (desktop, server) that uses IPv6 in a different way, better way? >>> - Does it make it any different for a mail client, or server, or peer-to-peer software? Or anything else? >>> - Can I connect my Kmail client (for instance) to a mail server that's on IPV6? >>> >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Rob >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Rob Echlin, B. Eng. >>> 613-266-8311 - Ottawa, ON >>> Blog: http://talksoftware.wordpress.com/ >>> - I am a software developer and proponent of Agile Software Development processes. >>> - Agile delivers: faster to market, higher quality, what the customer actually needs. More satisfying, more fun! >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Linux mailing list >>> Linux [ at ] lists [ dot ] oclug [ dot ] on [ dot ] ca >>> http://oclug.on.ca/mailman/listinfo/linux >>> >> > > >