Your views on the proposed IPv6?
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It won't be for another 7-10 years I recon. It'll make life a misery at start, but long term we'll welcome the change.
I'm not sure but can we get more subnets out of v6 as apposed to v4?
Furthermore will the IP classes change? I just feel that its a waste of IPs to have Class A v4 not being used for anything useful. Ive been told its used for top dog security CIA MI5 type operations. But they really dont need that many IPs do they?
I'm not sure but can we get more subnets out of v6 as apposed to v4?
Furthermore will the IP classes change? I just feel that its a waste of IPs to have Class A v4 not being used for anything useful. Ive been told its used for top dog security CIA MI5 type operations. But they really dont need that many IPs do they?
lol, im thinking maybe it is, but here is a very good website i found for a research assignment i am currently doing on the workings of TCP/IP and the motivation behind the change from IPV4!
www.tcpipguide.com
www.tcpipguide.com
eXSBass said:
1. because its 128bit rather than 32bit.
2. its doesn't have classes in the same way ipv4 does. ipv4 proved that was wastefull.
3. ipv6 will have enough addresses to last a long long time, enough for everyone to have a heap of ip devices, eg fridges and stuff.
4. they may have implimented it but its for everyone.
*i think, but i may have remembered it wrong.
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It's definatley getting a lot more commercial interest in the last 6 months or so. We have a very small v6 network comprising of cisco 6509sup720 switches in London and Amsterdam. We have a 1000Mb peering connection to LINX and thats about it. We see about 2-300mb of traffic on it on average and its mainly originating from academic institutes like DANTE etc.
I don't understand much about it at the moment, my only involvement was getting the physical kit involved before handing over to a project engineer.
I know that a lot of other carriers are also experimenting with it, but we have no timeline as to when a full scale rollout will be.
I don't understand much about it at the moment, my only involvement was getting the physical kit involved before handing over to a project engineer.
I know that a lot of other carriers are also experimenting with it, but we have no timeline as to when a full scale rollout will be.
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IPV6 will mainly start with mobile networks, 4G is based on IPV6 as are most upcoming large scale user networks..
IPV6 is great cause it has so much stuff built into to it apart from the obvious advantage of 1 billion IP's for each person on the planet! Its got lots of enhancements,
They'll be no more DHCP, as with IPV6 the router simply sends the /48 prefix of its interface and the remote device configures its host address with the mac address of its network interface.. All the fields in an IPV6 packet are also padded to 64bit so the hardware can process IPV6 a lot quicker. IPV6 ditches broadcast and uses multicast,
It'll allow for extremely fast routing within the internet, as IPV6 has a flow label, which also goes alongside modern routing within the internet such as MPLS and such like.
Basically, it means in 4-6 years your wrist watch will have an IP address
IPV6 is great cause it has so much stuff built into to it apart from the obvious advantage of 1 billion IP's for each person on the planet! Its got lots of enhancements,
They'll be no more DHCP, as with IPV6 the router simply sends the /48 prefix of its interface and the remote device configures its host address with the mac address of its network interface.. All the fields in an IPV6 packet are also padded to 64bit so the hardware can process IPV6 a lot quicker. IPV6 ditches broadcast and uses multicast,
It'll allow for extremely fast routing within the internet, as IPV6 has a flow label, which also goes alongside modern routing within the internet such as MPLS and such like.
Basically, it means in 4-6 years your wrist watch will have an IP address