When are we moving over to IPv6?

PeeluckyDuckee

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Just curious. XP does support IPv6 if I recall? Are businesses planning to move over to it as soon as it comes out? Any reason to switch?
 

Garion

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IPV6 had it's "glory days" a few years ago when the Internet was getting big and it appeared we were running out IPV4 addresses. That was a very valid concern for a while, but nowadays everyone is using NAT to connect to the Internet, freeing up a lot of addresses. For example, I work for a large company with ~60,000 users. The total "advertised" Internet space is ~4,000 addresses. (Even if we do own two class B's and innumerable class C's).

IPV6 will eventually come, but the immediate need that we saw a while back has passed.

- G
 

n0cmonkey

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IPv6 has mroe than just a larger number of ips. It will come, but not anytime in the immediate future. Think about how many unlucky souls are still using Win9x. As far as I know, Win9x does not have support for IPv6, so they would all be screwed. There is a segment of the net using IPv6 right now (6bone? something like that), but its mostly for research and testing.