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Level of IPv6 Usage Is Vanishingly Small
An anonymous reader writes "The impending IPv4 address allocation shortage has led to a lot of speculation on the future of IPv6 (including here). A new study says that Internet IPv6 migration is not just going slowly — it has basically not even begun. After spending a year measuring IPv6 traffic across 87 ISPs around the world, the study concludes 'less than one hundredth of 1% of Internet traffic is IPv6... equivalent to the allowed parts of contaminants in drinking water.'"
I'm kind of suprised that my ISP in Hungary is switching over it's infrastructure to IPv6 and making IPv6 available for the users by the end of this year. I consider it a huge step forward, plus the free porn here is a welcome bonus.
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Also, most of the world is using Windows XP. Can you show me where in my TCP/IP settings panel I am supposed to enter my IPv6 information? Exactly.
You don't. As is the benefit of IPv6, if it's installed it should be automagically configured. It shouldn't require manual configuration.
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It may be just me, but I always felt IPv6 is a solution looking for the problem. [..] And lots and lots of NAT or proxying.
And NAT is a problem masquerading as a solution.
Anyway, I am ready to bet some cash that IPv6 will never become a major transport protocol.
I know I will do whatever I can to keep it far far away.
And I'll keep on enjoying all the free services people provide for IPv6 enabled hosts.
Your hair look like poop, Bob! - Wanker.
One of the key features of ipv6 is simplified routing (it was pretty much the #1 design improvement), so the amount of processing routers have to do goes way down, in spite of the higher bit count.
Please read the first page of this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPv6
and of course more if you are seriously interested.
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There is a killer app, It's called
news.ipv6.eweka.nl
It has 120 (!) days retention, and comes to you at gigabit speed.
All for FREE if you use ipv6.
IPv4 addresses can be represented in IPv6 as 0::10.10.1.12 (Or as 0::FFFF:10.10.1.12 in some cases.)
I don't see that using dots instead of colons makes a transition any easier.
Really? The dots vs colons thing is the single most problematic thing I've encountered. No seriously - network level is easy, just upgrade firmware or hardware. It when working with configuration files and addresses that IPv6 sucks. Firstly, : was already very widely used used, for separating IPv4 address from port number.
Just using abcd.abcd.abcd.abcd.abcd.abcd.abcd.abcd would have meant that abcd.abcd.abcd.abcd.abcd.abcd.abcd.abcd:443
would have worked much like 123.123.123.123:443, though obviously distinguishably - hex and more sections.
People seem to have settled on enclosing the IPv6 address in square brackets to make it work reasonably parseably (given abbreviation, see below) into config files and urls and stuff, at least that seems to be the most widely used convention. i.e. [abcd:abcd:abcd:abcd:abcd:abcd:abcd:abcd]:443
It works okay, but it could have been simply avoided, damnit.
Secondly, the :0000:0000:000: to :: abbreviation rule was actually a terrible mistake. It makes parsers somewhat harder to write, and means that IPv6 addresses can't be munged with regexes nearly as handily as IPv4 addresses, which seriously inconveniences time-pressed sysadmins. Yes, Ipv6 address are long if unabbreviated. But without the abbreviation they would have been REGULAR.
Affect/effect are one of those amusingly nasty little hand grenades in English. Handy crib sheet:
Affect, n: emotional response. "The Minister for Granola appeared to be displaying flattened affect during his speech, leading to suspicions that he was abusing his own product."
Effect, n: causal result. "The effect of the proposed granola reform would be catastrophic."
Affect, v: alter. "The proposed reforms will affect the granola industry greatly."
Effect, v: put into immediate action. "If elected, I will effect sweeping reforms of the granola trade."
You are not a brain: http://books.google.com/books?id=2oV61CeDx-YC