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Are we going to start seeing IPv6 support soon?
lonnie
12-03-2005, 10:42 PM
What would you use it for?
I would use it to give everyone a globally accessible IP in the network. Most clients are running XP which only needs IPv6 to be installed to get it running. Yes we would have to run dual stack for a while, but we would phase out v4 as soon as possible.
But thats just me :)
mp3turbo
01-30-2006, 11:06 AM
yes, and "public" ipv6 addresses will bring you 237235987987x more viruses than your customers have right now and that will bring you 3495723409672097x more problems.
ipv6 has other benefits other than address space.
ipv6's extensible header format and flow control makes it a good choice if you need to use QoS.
I would put ipv6 high on my wish list of desired features
Thank you Tim, public IP doesn't necessarily mean that you can connect to it, just that its publically addressable. Whether you have a v4 or v6 ip has no bearing on whether your system is susceptible to virii or not.
Configuration 'can' become much easier in the network due to several factors. True mobile IP would become closer to becoming a reality, NAT'ing isn't required, hence the load on the 'edge' device is reduced (its now only a router again).
There are networks in spain that are now tunneling v4 over v6 because the core of thet network is v6 only. In fact for http, as all the traffic is proxied anyway, the http protocol is simple to deal with because the proxy converts from v4 to v6 for the clients.
Please, please, please.
Cheers
John
What would you use it for?
IPV6 IS coming. This is certain. The question was, are you actually planning on implementing it, so that some of us who are a bit slower and not real network gurus would like some time to begin working with it?
IANA is now offering IPV6 space, and there's some software out starting to address it, including FreeBSD and Linux, which have for quite some time now.
lonnie
02-14-2006, 11:42 PM
We have more important features to work on at the moment. IPv6 has been tested and we can do it when we feel the need.
It does not matter what IANA is offering. What matters is whether you can connect to any IPv6 routers at your supplier and whether they have connections. Right now, very few people have the ability.
We have more important features to work on at the moment. IPv6 has been tested and we can do it when we feel the need.
It does not matter what IANA is offering. What matters is whether you can connect to any IPv6 routers at your supplier and whether they have connections. Right now, very few people have the ability.
Good stuff, glad to hear you have it tested (I'll gladly test it some more for you if you wish).
I don't know about lack of ability, I'm running IPv6 at home, sure its tunnelled to the sixxs pop but I have it. Any device connecting to my internal wireless lan gets a global IPv6 IP. In fact on my home node I would be giving out global IP's if I could (I have a /48 allocation for our wireless network).
In work, some of our networks are IPv6 only, no way for v4 traffic to get in or out, also quite a few of the ISPs here are already dual stacked, out as far as smtp and other servers, not solely in the core.
Regards
John
Agreed. We are also applying for an /48 ipv6 address range ...
I would be interested in attempting to deploy a MIPv6 testbed using Star-OS if v6 was enabled, it could make a very interesting project.
When you guys do get a chance please consider it, it would be a very nice feature which would enable to replace some kit with WARs ;-)
lonnie
03-11-2006, 06:35 PM
Will you email the details for applying for our own allocation? We had a group that was going to allocate us from their space last Fall but they never followed through. We should get our own space and then maybe it would be more real.
Agreed. We are also applying for an /48 ipv6 address range ...
I would be interested in attempting to deploy a MIPv6 testbed using Star-OS if v6 was enabled, it could make a very interesting project.
When you guys do get a chance please consider it, it would be a very nice feature which would enable to replace some kit with WARs ;-)
Go to www.sixxs.net, and contact them. They will get you started at getting a tunnel up and running, once the tunnel is up for about a week you can apply for a /48 and then your pretty much sorted. Thats what I'm using at home here. I applied for a /48 about 2 years ago in anticipation of its arrival in Star-os. Feel free to drop me an email if your looking for beta-testers.. I'm sure Alfa and I can come up with some odd-ball tests.
Cheers
John
Will you email the details for applying for our own allocation? We had a group that was going to allocate us from their space last Fall but they never followed through. We should get our own space and then maybe it would be more real.
See J0ns post. Yip, we would be also available for beta testing if you deploy it in star0os.
Skaught
03-12-2006, 12:52 PM
No offence but I think I can speak for many here when I say ipv6 is very low on the list.
As the operator of a full out ISP I will not even be looking at IPv6 for a signifigant period of time. Once the telcos and cable companies start deploying it in a big way I will consider it.
I agree with you Skaught regarding features of V3, but IPV6 is coming and some commercial telecoms are becoming extremely interested in it. SIP/MIP makes more sense with v6.
I’m not asking to prioritise v6 over essentials like WPA Radius etc, it would just enable people like myself who are involved in both commercial and academic projects to use star-os/WARs instead of other wireless os's/hardware solutions.
I agree with everyone <g>. My backhaul provider can do ipv6 so potentially I could offer ipv6 all the way through, so this is pretty high on my wish list.
But still much lower than getting the full functionality of v3.
Absolutely.. I'd love to see IPv6 in there, but I think full functionality of v3 is of course what everyone wants first.
Ciao