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IPv6 Traffic Remains Minuscule

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the serious-pain-in-the-butt dept.

judgecorp writes "Even though we are running out of IPv4 addresses, IPv6 traffic is still not taking off. In fact it is less than one percent and falling, according to a report from Arbor Networks."

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  1. home routers by yincrash · · Score: 5, Interesting

    How many home routers support IPv6?

  2. Re:what is... by Anrego · · Score: 5, Insightful

    NAT and other hacks I imagine.

    Truth is, I don't expect IPv6 to be widespread for about 10 years. The reasoning being that:

    - while we are technically out of IPs ... this is not the world ending problem it's been hyped to be.. as evidenced by the world not ending
    - the stuff we should have been doing 10 years ago at the consumer level we are just starting to do now (how many _new_ home routers still don't do IPv6 .. these will all need to be replaced. In a decade, there will probably be a noticable "IPv6 transition period" layer in all landfills.
    - carrier grade NAT "solves" everything

    ISPs en-masse should have been giving people IPv6 addresses to play with _years_ ago. I have experimented with IPv6 locally and via tunnel, but it's just not worth it when I don't know how my ISP will allocate addresses. It also concerns me to think how they will roll this out to the masses... because they are going to have to make it user friendly and seemless to the large consumer base... which means it's probably going to be primitive, locked down, and very frustrating for anyone with technical savvy. I _hope_ they don't require everyone to use some half baked custom hardware with some propriatary switchover software that you _have_ to use.