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Re: Remember "Internet-In-A-Box"?
From: Lee Howard <Lee () asgard org>
Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2015 12:41:08 -0400
On 7/15/15, 11:57 AM, "NANOG on behalf of Matthew Kaufman" <nanog-bounces () nanog org on behalf of matthew () matthew at> wrote:
Go to any business with hardware that is 3-5 years old in its IT infrastructure and devices ranging from PCs running XP to the random consumer gear people bring in (cameras, printers, tablets, etc.) and see how easy it is to get everything talking on an IPv6-only (no IPv4 at all) network... including using IPv6 to do automatic updates and all the other pieces that need to work. We're nowhere near ready for that.
This is painfully true. I don¹t have much sympathy for Windows XP, since it¹s a year past extended End of Support, and it¹s a 15-year-old operating system, now five generations obsolete? But specific-purpose consumer electronics are failures: not just cameras, but game consoles, set-top boxes, audio-video systems. Even security critical stuff like software updates, anti-virus updates, CRL checks, are almost completely unavailable over IPv6. Unless you run a large enough enterprise to have your own update servers; then they can pull updates over IPv4, and serve clients over IPv6. However, if you dual-stack now, you¹ll be able to identify which things are still dependent on IPv4, and either engineer differently, or substitute equipment over time. Lee
Matthew Kaufman
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- Re: Remember "Internet-In-A-Box"?, (continued)
- Re: Remember "Internet-In-A-Box"? Mike (Jul 14)
- Re: Remember "Internet-In-A-Box"? Mel Beckman (Jul 14)
- Re: Remember "Internet-In-A-Box"? Peter Kristolaitis (Jul 14)
- Re: Remember "Internet-In-A-Box"? Mark Andrews (Jul 15)
- Re: Remember "Internet-In-A-Box"? Marco Davids (Jul 15)
- Re: Remember "Internet-In-A-Box"? Matthew Kaufman (Jul 15)
- Re: Remember "Internet-In-A-Box"? Owen DeLong (Jul 15)
- Re: Remember "Internet-In-A-Box"? Tore Anderson (Jul 15)
- Re: Remember "Internet-In-A-Box"? Chuck Anderson (Jul 17)
- Re: Remember "Internet-In-A-Box"? Hugo Slabbert (Jul 17)
- Re: Remember "Internet-In-A-Box"? Mike (Jul 14)
- Re: Remember "Internet-In-A-Box"? Lee Howard (Jul 15)
- Re: Remember "Internet-In-A-Box"? Mark Andrews (Jul 15)
- Re: Remember "Internet-In-A-Box"? Matthew Kaufman (Jul 15)
- Re: Remember "Internet-In-A-Box"? Owen DeLong (Jul 15)
- Re: Remember "Internet-In-A-Box"? Stephen Satchell (Jul 15)
- Re: Remember "Internet-In-A-Box"? Hugo Slabbert (Jul 15)
- Re: Remember "Internet-In-A-Box"? Mark Andrews (Jul 16)
- Re: Remember "Internet-In-A-Box"? Hugo Slabbert (Jul 16)
- RE: Remember "Internet-In-A-Box"? Keith Medcalf (Jul 16)
- Re: Remember "Internet-In-A-Box"? Dave Pooser (Jul 16)
- Re: Remember "Internet-In-A-Box"? Owen DeLong (Jul 15)