Where Is IPV6?
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I just saw something that kinda left me wondering. According to ICANN, Aftrica is leading the world in the adoption of IPV6 addressing. I realize that African ISPs and networks aren’t exactly a dime a dozen, so they’ve got less to adapt and change. Plus the fact that because they’ve so much less established stuff there, they can adopt the new IPV6 ready equipment and software right from the start.
Thing is, we’ve been hearing for YEARs that IPV4 is running out of address space. In fact, from what I’ve seen, it’s in similar shape to a pedestrian vs delivery truck accident. The patient is being treated on the site, he’s on a portable oxygen concentrator to keep him breathing, but if something major isn’t done soon he’s going to die.
As I understand it, IPV4 addresses are supposed to run out sometime in 2010. This means that only those systems that are already prepared for IPV6 will be ready to switch and not be affected.
How many home routers are ipv6 capable? How do we find out? I spend several hours a couple weeks ago looking for information for the WesTel wireless router we’re using (37w I think, don’t remember now) and I wasn’t able to find anything that answered in a simple yes or no if the device would cooperate with ipv6 or if it would be necessary to come up with something else or a workaround.
Sad thing is, this issue has been known about for years. hardware and software people have had years to develop and deploy systems that could automatically deal with ipv6 addresses when the time came. Now we’re getting down to the wire and I find it bothersome that there is so little being said about it.
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this post doesn’t make sense. its not like the world is instantly going to change to ipv6 the second we use the last ipv4 addresses. ipv4 and ipv6 can coexist thanks to the beauties of NAT. large organizations can implement ipv6 while the backbone is based off of ipv4. this allows for a seemless transition.
Actually it makes perfect sense. I realize the thing about NAT making things not quite so urgent and I understand that the Net isn’t going to explode when ipv4 runs out.
However, I also think that there needs to be more being done about this than there is. A Lot more.
But Why? what crisis will happen if the transition to ipv6 is slow? the move from ipv4 to ipv6 will be based upon necessity. please mention other resources that point towards some crisis. when ipv4 and ipv6 can coexist i wonder if the transition will ever fully complete. and your router only really needs to have partial compatibility with ipv6, say your ISP moves to a full Ipv6 system. Then your router will be required to accept an ipv6 address for its wan IP. however, since you will be subnetting to any other computer that connects to that router, you can use ipv4.
If you’re looking for a great router that can support ipv6 and will also have to ability to adapt to other standards if the internet i recommend the linksys wrt-54 g or one of its many variants, then simply install the DD-WRT firmware on the system. its excellent.