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[Matt Mathis <>]

Ok, we will look into 1.4 and IPv6 support under NPAD.  Simon, your data
suggests that this will clobber less than 2% of the clients.  (I believe that
we have all of the pieces, it just has not been tested).

Rich and I have informally collaborated for years.   Each tool does some
things better than the other, so it makes sense to try to combine the best of
each.

Thanks,
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On Thu, 24 Aug 2006, Richard Carlson wrote:

> Hi Simon;
>
> At 02:27 PM 8/24/2006, Simon Leinen wrote:
> >Matt Mathis writes:
> > > With NPAD we have chosen to pin SDK to version 1.3, because it
> > > currently has the broadest support on the clients.  As soon as we
> > > get a report that the SW is too old to run on some platform, will
> > > consider moving forward.  Since the developers often have newer
> > > systems this requires forcing the version down on the compile:
> >
> > >       javac -source 1.3 DiagClient.java
> >
> >This is nice from a backwards compatibility point of view, but
> >wouldn't that break IPv6 support?
> >Personally I think this is worth requiring Java 1.4 or better.
>
> Can you check this out and see what happens?
> the commands
> cd Applet
> javac -source 1.3 Tcpbw100.java
> jar -cmf MANIFEST.MF Tcpbw100.jar Tcpbw100*.class
> cp Tcpbw100.jar /usr/local/ndt
>
> should get you a new binary.  You will need to close and re-open the
> browser to get it to pick up the new applet.
>
> > > We have zero java version complaints since doing this.  The decision
> > > to move forward will not be made without weighing the pros and cons
> > > pretty carefully.  NPAD and NDT should probably be synchronized....
> >
> >Why? (Competition is good! :-)
>
> Matt and I have talked about combining these 2 tools.  We both think it
> would be good for the community, but don't expect it to happen overnight.  
> .-)
>
> >--
> >Simon.
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