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No IPv6 For UK Broadband Users
BT (the incumbent telephone company in the United Kingdom) are in the process of spending millions of pounds on upgrading their network to an all-IP core. However, they have failed to consider 21st Century protocol support, preferring to insist that IPv4 is enough for everyone. Haven't they noticed the IPv4 exhaustion report yet?
That's pretty god-damned funny right there. Every time I get upset about our leader's lack of vision here in the US, I just have to think about the good old UK & I immediately feel a little better.
Thanks guys!
There is a war going on for your mind.
You want FUD? Saying "BT insists IPv4 is enough for everyone" is FUD. WTF is wrong with you people.
Most IT groups solve problems with MS products because they are proven reliable in an enterprise environment, and they have a track record for great support.
By comparison, FOSSies want to solve problems with Teh Lunix and FOSS, because that's all they know. And enterprises don't trust Lunix or FOSS, because there track record is spotty at best, and the level of support relies entirely on whatever armada of overpaid consultants you can latch on to. And in my experience, relying on consultants for core business needs equals an epic fail.
MS may not always be the technially best solution, but they are always the most reliable solution. If there are problems, they will address those problems. THAT is why GOOD enterprise IT groups stick with MS- work time is too important to view as play time... and FOSS is for primarily for play time.
What you want is a firewall then, something that does packet filtering, not NAT. I really can't be bothered arguing about this for the millionth time, as the kids say "LAERN 2 NETWURKS".
/Mikael
Greylisting is to SMTP as NAT is to IPv4
You're talking out of your ass. NAT is a horrible kludge of a workaround for a problem that IPv6 solves. I have no idea what your ramblings about ATM are supposed to prove...
/Mikael
Greylisting is to SMTP as NAT is to IPv4