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RE: "supporting IPv6" <--- what it means exactly?
From: "Leigh Porter" <leigh.porter () ukbroadband com>
Date: Sat, 23 Apr 2011 13:09:09 +0100
Is there any clear understanding of what "supporting IPv6" means?
I recently was told by a vendor that they "supported IPv6", and then
when I went >to go configure an IPv6 address, it was, of course, IPv4. I asked how they >supported that, and they said that they "supported it" because they could "pass >IPv6" traffic.
Well...duh!
Yeah this seems to be a common problem. Vendors who have equipment that does not support a full IPv6 feature set comparable to the IPv4 functionality usually do the "it'll pass Ipv6" in which case my 10Mb/s hub from 1996 is IPv6 ready... Then there are vendors who offer a good IPv6 feature set but who only have IPv4 for the management. Some DPI vendors spring to mind for this. So.. caveat emptor! -- Leigh Porter UK Broadband ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. For more information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com/email ______________________________________________________________________
Current thread:
- "supporting IPv6" <--- what it means exactly? Rogelio (Apr 23)
- RE: "supporting IPv6" <--- what it means exactly? Leigh Porter (Apr 23)
- Re: "supporting IPv6" <--- what it means exactly? John Curran (Apr 23)
- Re: "supporting IPv6" <--- what it means exactly? Randy Bush (Apr 23)
- Re: "supporting IPv6" <--- what it means exactly? Jared Mauch (Apr 23)
- Re: "supporting IPv6" <--- what it means exactly? Jorge Amodio (Apr 23)
- Re: "supporting IPv6" <--- what it means exactly? Joel Jaeggli (Apr 23)
- Re: "supporting IPv6" <--- what it means exactly? Randy Bush (Apr 23)
- RE: "supporting IPv6" <--- what it means exactly? George Bonser (Apr 24)
- Re: RE: "supporting IPv6" <--- what it means exactly? Cameron Byrne (Apr 24)
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- Re: "supporting IPv6" <--- what it means exactly? jkrejci (Apr 23)