Re: Remember "Internet-In-A-Box"?

[Lee Howard <Lee () asgard org>]

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