Re: Only 5x IPv4 /8 remaining at IANA

[Franck Martin <franck () genius com>]

No, no....

Putting your servers on IPv6 is a major task. Load balancers, proprietary code, log analysis, database records... all 
that needs to be reviewed to see if it is compatible with IPv6 (and a few equipments need recent upgrades if even they 
can do IPv6 today).

Putting your client machines (ie internal network) to IPv6 is relatively easy. Enable IPv6 on the border router, you 
don't need failover (can built it later) as anyhow the clients will failover to IPv4 if IPv6 fails... So as failover is 
not needed you can have a separate simple IPv6 network infrastructure on top of your IPv4 Infrastructure.

So my advocacy, is get your client (I'm not talking about customers here, but client as client/server) machines on 
IPv6, get your engineers, support staff,.. to be familiar with IPv6, then all together you can better understand how to 
migrate your servers infrastructure to IPv6 (and your customers to IPv6 if you are an ISP).

If you do that, you will see migration to IPv6 is made much easier, and much faster.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Owen DeLong" <owen () delong com>
To: "Franck Martin" <franck () genius com>
Cc: "Jonas Frey (Probe Networks)" <jf () probe-networks de>, "Jeffrey Lyon" <jeffrey.lyon () blacklotus net>, "NANOG 
list" <nanog () nanog org>
Sent: Tuesday, 19 October, 2010 8:55:56 PM
Subject: Re: Only 5x IPv4 /8 remaining at IANA

Servers work just fine over tunnels if necessary too.

Get your public-facing content and services on IPv6 as fast as possible.
Make IPv6 available to your customers as quickly as possible too.

Finally, your internal IT resources (other than your support department(s)) can
probably wait a little while.

Owen

On Oct 18, 2010, at 1:41 PM, Franck Martin wrote: