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RE: Creating demand for IPv6
From: <michael.dillon () bt com>
Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2007 23:52:06 +0100
It solves another problem as well, like "I cannot go v6 tomy serversbecause my load balancing and packet filtering black boxesdon't do ityet".
For this you need an ALG. This could be something like Squid on a box with both v6 and v4 interfaces. Basically, we now have such fast servers available with such high-speed networking, that anybody can build whatever middle-box they need using Linux and BSD. Ten years or so ago this was not nearly so easy to do which is why vendors stepped in with their blackbox products. But today, the situation is different. If the vendors are lagging behind, cut them out of the equation. Eventually new vendors will step up to the plate and you may decide to replace your home-built boxes with something commercial at around the time IPv6 traffic growth goes exponential. Or maybe you will follow Google's example and stick with the commodity hardware and tweak your software package into a well-opiled machine.
In order to make use of 6to4, surely servers and load balancers still need to support IPv6 -- they just get loaded with addresses covered by a 6to4 prefix rather than a prefix assigned by an RIR or an IPv6 transit provider.
IPv6 transition has a lot more wrinkles than just choosing which one of the IETF transition mechanisms is your favorite. --Michael Dillon
Current thread:
- Re: Creating demand for IPv6, (continued)
- Re: Creating demand for IPv6 Randy Bush (Oct 02)
- Re: Creating demand for IPv6 William Herrin (Oct 02)
- why this is a real mess and v6 may fail (was marketing bs Re: Creating demand for IPv6) Randy Bush (Oct 02)
- Re: Creating demand for IPv6 Iljitsch van Beijnum (Oct 03)
- Re: Creating demand for IPv6 Joe Abley (Oct 03)
- RE: Creating demand for IPv6 michael.dillon (Oct 03)
- Re: Creating demand for IPv6 Joe Abley (Oct 03)
- Re: Creating demand for IPv6 Joe Abley (Oct 03)
- Re: Creating demand for IPv6 Elmar K. Bins (Oct 03)
- Re: Creating demand for IPv6 Joe Abley (Oct 03)
- RE: Creating demand for IPv6 michael.dillon (Oct 03)
- Re: Creating demand for IPv6 Elmar K. Bins (Oct 03)
- Re: Creating demand for IPv6 William Herrin (Oct 03)
- RE: Creating demand for IPv6 michael.dillon (Oct 03)
- Re: Creating demand for IPv6 William Herrin (Oct 03)
- RE: Creating demand for IPv6 michael.dillon (Oct 03)
- Re: Creating demand for IPv6 Joe Abley (Oct 03)
- RE: Creating demand for IPv6 michael.dillon (Oct 03)
- Re: Creating demand for IPv6 Nathan Ward (Oct 03)
- Re: Creating demand for IPv6 William Herrin (Oct 03)
- RE: Creating demand for IPv6 michael.dillon (Oct 04)