IPv6

Neost · Post by **Neost** » June 17, 2004, 10:28 pm

Or IPng as Steve Deering first coined it.

Just did a quick module on IPv6 today. I've done a little reading in the past, IPv6 has been slated to be the savior of the internet address pool since what? 1995 or earlier?

Anyway, I haven't read on it in-depth in years and covered it in a network design course somewhat today. It looks like the RFC's have evolved quite a bit and I understand countries like Japan are subsidizing the migration from IPv4.

Has anyone read the Ciscopress book on IPv6? Cisco Self-Study: Implementing Cisco IPv6 Networks.

Marbus · Post by **Marbus** » June 18, 2004, 11:22 am

I haven't but would love to if I can get a copy. I'll ask around though most people are so busy I doubt they have had time either.

Marb

masteen · Post by **masteen** » June 22, 2004, 12:52 pm

The need for IPv6 was pushed WAAAAAAY back with the quick spread of many to one NAT, proxy servers, and such.

I for one, was NOT looking forward to having to fuck with those bigass addresses in hex. ATM was bad enough.

Zaelath · Post by **Zaelath** » June 29, 2004, 10:39 pm

Even things like content switches have pushed back IPv6, if you can have one external IP address with 16 web servers behind it that's a lot better than round robin DNS and 16 addressable IPs (for more reasons than just saving a few addresses..)