MvdV> Hello Jason,  
  MvdV>  
  MvdV> On Monday February 24 2025 05:35, you wrote to me:  
  MvdV>  
  MvdV>  JB> I really do not use IPV6 personally, except maybe a couple  
  MvdV> machines in  
  MvdV>  JB> my lab.  I have a couple clients that use it internally, usually  
  in  
  MvdV>  JB> some manufacturing environments.  
  MvdV>  
  MvdV> So you are an ICT professional?  
  MvdV>  
  MvdV>  JB> I thought it would take off much more than it has in the US.  
  MvdV>  
  MvdV> It does indeed go a lot slower than I hoped and expected. Not just in  
  MvdV> he US. The US is actually doing pretty well on the global list.  
  MvdV>  
  MvdV>  JB> It would be good for me to start utilizing it more as it is  
  MvdV> something  
  MvdV>  JB> that I may be forced to use at some point in my profession.  
  MvdV>  
  MvdV> What has stopped you from making your FidoNet node IPv6 capable?  
  MvdV>  
  MvdV>  JB> Do you use IPV6 regularly?  
  MvdV>  
  MvdV> Yes. Almost all of my IP traffic goes via IPv6. Personal use only I  
  MvdV> should add. I have been a pensionado for many years now.  
  MvdV>  
  MvdV> I have been advocating the use of IPv6 in Fidonet for more than 15  
  MvdV> years. The list of IPv6 capable Fidonet nodes that is published  
  weekly  
  MvdV> in Fidonews now counts 109 nodes.  
  MvdV>  
  MvdV> I would have expected more. It seems that pioneer spirit that once  
  made  
  MvdV> Fidonet booming is mostly gone. But maybe 109 out of an estimated 300  
  MvdV> active nodes is not all that bad...  
  MvdV>  
  MvdV> Oh wait. I see why your node does not supprt IPv6...  
  MvdV>  
  MvdV> + 12:02 [5180] call to 1:267/310@fidonet  
  MvdV>   12:02 [5180] trying f310.n267.z1.binkp.net [24.30.241.107]...  
  MvdV>   12:02 [5180] connected  
  MvdV> + 12:02 [5180] outgoing session with f310.n267.z1.binkp.net:24554  
  MvdV>                [24.30.241.107]  
  MvdV> - 12:02 [5180] OPT MB CRC MD5 CRAM-MD5-16e1cc  
  b99840be034f6da10c1fc5d10e  
  MvdV> + 12:02 [5180] Remote requests MD mode  
  MvdV> - 12:02 [5180] SYS SiliconUnderground - ProBoard / FuNet WHQ  
  MvdV> - 12:02 [5180] ZYZ Jason Bock  
  MvdV> - 12:02 [5180] LOC Rochester, NY  
  MvdV> - 12:02 [5180] NDL CM,IBN  
  MvdV> - 12:02 [5180] TIME 2025/02/24 06:00:57 -5:00  
  MvdV> - 12:02 [5180] VER Internet Rex 2.31 Win32 (binkp/1.1)  
  MvdV> + 12:02 [5180] addr: 1:267/310@fidonet  
  MvdV>  
  MvdV> You are using Irex. One of the reasons, maybe the main reason, I  
  MvdV> dropped Irex well over 15 years ago is that it does not support IPv6  
  MvdV> and as abandonware it never will. I never regretted switching from  
  Irex  
  MvdV> to Binkd, changing from AMA to BSO and dropping POTS support with  
  MvdV> InterMail as collateral damage.  
  MvdV>  
  MvdV>  
  MvdV> Cheers, Michiel  
  MvdV>  
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  I have been doing IT for about 30 years.  Networking, Virtualization, etc.  
    
  Keeping busy.  Thank you to BBSing (since 5th grade) and Fidonet, I became  
  passionate and knew I would love to work with computers.  I had my first  
  computer at 3 or 4 (1979/1980).  I started with a Texas Instruments TI-99/4  
  then moved to a TI-994A with an expansion unit.  I hada blast!  
    
  I should look into doing more with IPv6 as it has been in the back of my  
  mind  
  for a while.  
    
  -Jason  
    
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