nanog mailing list archives

Re: How to force rapid ipv6 adoption


From: Curtis Maurand <cmaurand () xyonet com>
Date: Thu, 01 Oct 2015 23:52:40 -0300

If Time Warner (my ISP) put up IPv6  tomorrow, my firewall would no longer work.  I could put up a pfsnse or vyatta  
box pretty quickly, but my off the shelf Cisco/Linksys  home router has no ipv6 support hence the need to replace the 
hardware.  There's no firmware update for it supporting ipv6 either.  There would be millions of people in the same 
boat.

Cheers, 
Curtis

On October 1, 2015 5:44:46 PM ADT, Owen DeLong <owen () delong com> wrote:

On Oct 1, 2015, at 12:06 , Curtis Maurand <cmaurand () xyonet com>
wrote:



On 10/1/2015 2:29 PM, Owen DeLong wrote:
On Oct 1, 2015, at 00:39 , Baldur Norddahl
<baldur.norddahl () gmail com> wrote:

On 1 October 2015 at 03:26, Mark Andrews <marka () isc org> wrote:

Windows XP does IPv6 fine so long as there is a IPv4 recursive
server available.  It's just a simple command to install IPv6.

       netsh interface ipv6 install

If the customer knew how to do that he wouldn't still be using
Windows XP.


Actually I don't expect Gmail and Facebook to be IPv4 only
forever.

Gmail and Facebook are already dual stack enabled. But I do not see
Facebook turning off IPv4 for a very long time. Therefore a
customer that
only uses the Internet for a few basic things will be able to get
along
with being IPv4-only for a very long time.

Yes and no…

I think you are right about facebook.

However, I think eventually the residential ISPs are going to start
charging extra
for IPv4 service. Some residences may pay for it initially, but if
they think there’s a
way to move away from it and the ISPs start fingerpointing to the
specific laggards,
you’ll see a groundswell of consumers pushing to find alternatives.

Owen

ipv6 is going to force a lot of consumers to replace hardware. Worse,
it's not easy to set up and get right as ipv4 is.

--Curtis

You’re going to have to elaborate on that one…. I think IPv6 is
actually quite a bit easier than IPv4, so please explicate
in what ways it is harder to set up and get right?

For the average household, it’s plug the IPv6-capable router in and let
it go.

For more advanced environments, it might take nearly as much effort as
IPv4 and the unfamiliarity might add a couple
of additional challenges the first time, but once you get past that,
IPv6 has a lot of features that actually make it
easier than IPv4.

Not having to deal with NAT being just one of the big ones.

Owen

-- 
Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.


Current thread: