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Comcast To Bring IPv6 To Residential US In 2010
darthcamaro writes "We all know that IPv4 address space is almost gone — but we also know that no major US carrier has yet migrated its consumer base, either. Comcast is now upping the ante a bit and has now said that they are seriously gearing up for IPv6 residential broadband deployment soon. 'Comcast plans to enter into broadband IPv6 technical trials later this year and into 2010,' Barry Tishgart, VP of Internet Services for Comcast said. 'Planning for general deployment is underway.'"
Don't you consider having to make that phone call in the first place a problem?
How does that even make sense? Of course you're gonna have to call them... they don't give away internet for free, so yes you have to talk to them to have your modem registered to the account so that the DHCP server will talk to you. I think it's awesome that they let him use a third-party modem at all.
Frankly, I love Comcast. Yeah, they have a tendency to be jewish, but they're a huge corporation. Yeah, they have outages, but who the hell doesn't? Yeah, they were throttling peoples' torrents, but I never experienced them throttling mine so I don't really give a damn. I've never had any real problems with Comcast. Their outsourced phone support sucks, but you only get that about half the time, so you just have to ask the person who gives him a paycheck and tell him to transfer you to a Comcast call center.
I really don't see why so many people have a problem with Comcast. And I mean, problems with Comcast as a company, not with regards to your stupid commie philosophy big corporations are bad bullshit, because we are a nation built upon Capitalism, and we always will be, and even with all the problems of Capitalism it's way better than Communism (see also Russia).
As someone who regularly configures and manages large networks in IPv4 and IPv6, I'd love to hear exactly which improvements you mean. Perhaps you mean the need to have both DHCPv6 AND RA for SLAAC running all the time on a LAN (or you have to cheat off of IPv4 for DNS server addresses); perhaps you mean the lack of RA filtering capability, which makes m-i-t-m attacks a heck of a lot easier; perhaps you're not familiar with v4 multicast.
As for the fragmentation of IPv4 address space, yes, that's a concern if you are running routers which operate in the DFZ. If you aren't, then it's not such a big issue. In any case, routing table growth is likely to be substantially worse in the v6 space than in the v4 space, unless the regional registries can work out policies to keep the number of routes announced to the DFZ to be on the same order of magnitude as the number of ASNs assigned.
In short, there's lots wrong with v6 - the ONLY absolute plus for it is the larger address space. All the rest is consultant-foo.
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