[c-nsp] IPV6 in general was Re: Large networks

[Gert Doering]

Hi,

On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 10:58:23AM -0700, Scott Granados wrote:
> I'm interested in general, how much IPV6 is actually out there?  I'm very 
> unfamiliar but at my present gig and my last few I never ran in to this 
> once. Is it actually being used in production?

It really depends on what you call "in production".

Could I do my daily work (send mail to puck.nether.net, ssh to work and
from work to home machines, telnet to routers, hang on IRC, ask google,
lookup DNS, ...) using only IPv6?  Yes.

Am I doing it?  Mostly, but for some things I need to fall back to IPv4
because there are niches where IPv6 is harder to deploy, like "management 
interfaces on older switches" or "non-upgradeable routers at customer 
sites" and such.

Could I do *all* things that I do over the Internet using IPv6?  No.

Why?  Because companies like Cisco are stalling - no IPv6 on 
www.cisco.com, www.microsoft.com, www.heise.de, ... 


There will be Lots Of Fun when IPv4 runs out, and whole new markets
of DSL customers (as in India, China, Arabia...) will not be able to 
access web sites from vendors that have no IPv6 reachability.  Goodby,
sales to that region...

gert
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Gert Doering - Munich, Germany                             gert at greenie.muc.de
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