6UK - IPv6

branddaly

branddaly

branddaly

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6UK was offically launched yesterday. The plan is to raise awareness of the need to switch to IPv6. IANA's pool of IPv4 address is due to be exhausted around March next years, the Regional internet registries will run out a year or so later, and at some point in the future, you will not be able to add a new connection to the Internet on IPv4 (without some horrific variant of Carrier Grade Nat). IPv6 will become the default for new connections.

http://www.6uk.org.uk/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-11736394

As well as bandwidth and latency, it will soon become necessary to also ask your provider for IPv6 connectivity.

Oh, and overclockers.co.uk isn't on IPv6 yet, go bug your hosting provider, and seriously consider making the switch. (by switch I mean dual stack. Please don't switch off IPv4, or I'd get lonely waiting for everyone else to catch up)
 
branddaly said:
6UK was offically launched yesterday. The plan is to raise awareness of the need to switch to IPv6. IANA's pool of IPv4 address is due to be exhausted around March next years, the Regional internet registries will run out a year or so later, and at some point in the future, you will not be able to add a new connection to the Internet on IPv4 (without some horrific variant of Carrier Grade Nat). IPv6 will become the default for new connections.

http://www.6uk.org.uk/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-11736394

As well as bandwidth and latency, it will soon become necessary to also ask your provider for IPv6 connectivity.

Oh, and overclockers.co.uk isn't on IPv6 yet, go bug your hosting provider, and seriously consider making the switch. (by switch I mean dual stack. Please don't switch off IPv4, or I'd get lonely waiting for everyone else to catch up)
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Already ready here, ISP doesn't support it (yet) but i've got a tunnel from tunnelbroker.net running to my Cisco 877 and it works a treat - all my dual stack Comps autoconfigure with public IPv6 addresses.
 
I imagine some of the members who work for ISP and tier 1 and 2 companies will have some interesting things to say on this!
 
The problem isn't really the ISP's, all of their equipment is already IPv6 capable, the problem is that supporting end users through the changeover will be a nightmare. Hardly any home routers support it and people will need to be instructed on setting up firewalls.
 
Zarf said:
The problem isn't really the ISP's, all of their equipment is already IPv6 capable, the problem is that supporting end users through the changeover will be a nightmare. Hardly any home routers support it and people will need to be instructed on setting up firewalls.
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I suspect that's going to be the problem.

ISP's and carriers will tend to have equipment that has been capable of it for a while (or relatively small amounts of expensive equipment that will need updating in one form or another).

The problem is likely to be the millions of users with odd bits of equipment that may have been "cheap" 5 years ago but still in use...let alone the users (and small companies) still using OS's and apps that may not support IP6.

I can imagine the headache the change over is going to be for the likes of BT, VM and Sky with millions of customers many of whom will be the sort who don't have a clue about computers.
 
If VM had any brains they'd make sure this combined modem/router they are dishing out for 100mb will support 10v6.. would make things a little easy.. may make d-link, netgear wake up so there consumer devices support it to...
 
I've said before that I expect v6 will force a move to less intelligent devices at the consumer end (that and higher bandwidth connections), it's fairly common in europe for CPE devices to be essentailly merely xDSL to ethernet bridges with no user access and the routing and intelligent bits done at the ISP end.

It's cheap, it's easy, it's protocol agnostic, less performance limited and it helpfully makes it harder for users to be idiots as a side benefit
 
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