Forums Feature Suggestions IPv6

Wouldn't it be possible to implant a IPv6 support to mIRc?
it shouldn't be hard and it is very useful

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Umm I love how people say "it shouldn't be hard" and the like.

Are you a C++ coder? Have you ever worked with IPv6 coding before? Because if you did you would know it can easily become VERY hard very quickly. Especially since not all versions of Windows support IPv6.

I agree with you to a point. I've been working on new IRC services, with IPv6 support. It's easy when you start. But then you realize the host OS doesn't support IPv6. Or, perhaps, the uplink doesn't support it. At that point, you need to do an IPv6 over IPv4 tunnel. IMHO, that defeats the point of IPv6. I suggest waiting until the major uplinks support IPv6 before khaled starts. I also suggest 6bone not handing out trillions of IPv6 ips like it was candy. That's exactly why IPv4 ran out. (more specifically, Stanford, MIT, and Ford each having more IPs than China and AOL combined)

Dude, there are enough IPv6 addresses to assign one to every hydrogen molecule on Earth. IPv6 will *NEVER* run out of addresses, ever. And you can quote me on that.

/gleffler

I think the major point, though, has to be to implement IPv6 only as supported by OSes. Tunnelling shouldn't be handled by mIRC, and can be carried out without IPv6 support in mIRC anyway.

Obviously, plain and simple ipv6 support for enabled OSes would be enough.

Looks like X-Chat has working IPv6 for Windows now, so I guess it can wait...

The problem with X-Chat is the frequent conversion errors you get when converting high-ascii chars.

I use X-Chat on Gentoo Linux, so there's no problem there, of course.