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Most Enterprises Plan To Be On IPv6 By 2013
Julie188 writes "More than 70% of IT departments plan to upgrade their websites to support IPv6 within the next 24 months, according to a recent survey of more than 200 IT professionals conducted by Network World. Plus, 65% say they will have IPv6 running on their internal networks by then, too. One survey respondent, John Mann, a network architect at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia, said his organization has been making steady IPv6 progress since 2008. 'Mostly IPv6 has just worked,' he said. 'The biggest problem is maintaining forward progress with IPv6 while it is still possible to take the easy option and fall back to IPv4.'"
buy that pretty orange bridge there in San Francisco, you do have the deep right?
IPV6 has been a mess since the beginning, IS a mess and will continue to be a huge fucking mess for a long time.
They designed in the most ass-hat way possible, made it practically unusable for humans and just for fun made it require a DNS server for everyone for all intents and purposes.
I can mount up an IPV6 stack on my OpenSuSe box right now, but I can't use it for anything since my AT&T equipment does not support it and neither does AT&T's network.
The committee of ass-hats that designed this have not a damn clue about the real world and only exist in the their pristine bubble. The rest of the world has to deal with the vagaries of a thousand different ISP's and DCE manufacturers that have various levels of support for the gawd awful steaming pile that is IPV6.
You want more addresses, then mod IPV4 from a byte per address element to a word per address element and you have 65535 class A's
That can be a simple software update and it can be done incrementally without having to re-engineer the hardware.
That will give enough breathing room to build IPV7 which can be built into something that does not break the entire system.
Hey KID! Yeah you, get the fuck off my lawn!