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Google Deploys IPv6 For Internal Network

Posted by samzenpus on from the time-to-upgrade dept.

itwbennett writes "Google is four years into a project to roll out IPv6 to its entire internal employee network. At the Usenix Large Installation System Administration (LISA) conference in Boston last week, Google network engineer Irena Nikolova shared some lessons others can learn from Google's experience. For example: It requires a lot of work with vendors to get them to fix buggy and still-unfinished code. 'We should not expect something to work just because it is declared supported,' the paper accompanying the presentation concluded."

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  1. Re:Business as usual? by tgd · · Score: 4, Interesting

    And while the current versions of most OSes support IPv6, they do not do so by default.

    What are those OSes? Its been a long time since I turned on ipv6 at home. As I recall I had to do little other than turn it on. There is a difference between "activate" which is kind of like setting the sound mixer output to a comfortable level no big deal, vs searching on the internet to install 3rd party drivers and/or recompiling kernels.

    Windows 7 actually defaults to it being turned on, but will generally not do anything with it if it doesn't get an IPV6 DHCP address. But some MS technology (like the Win7 HomeGroup support, and DirectAccess) work via IPV6. Odds are there are a TON of people using IPV6 on their home network and just don't know it.