Do you use IPv6?
Submitted by Federico2 on Sun 23 Sep 2007
| Yes |
   10% | 95 votes |
| Not now, maybe soon |
23% | 209 votes |
| No |
59% | 527 votes |
| Huh? |
5% | 53 votes |
| Total 884 votes |
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http://www.debian-administration.org/polls/94
I wonder how the results will turn out this time?
Is IPv6 gaining any real traction in the market?
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"It's Not Magic, It's Work"
Adam
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Is IPv6 gaining any real traction in the market?
It will have to soon. I've recently returned from a very interesting conference where it was stated by one of the directors of our regional NREN that our IPv4 address space will be depleted within the next 3-4 years -- so the end of IPv4 is closer than alot of people think.
Start planning and implementing now, and there won't be a mad panic rush in a few years as major networks start renumbering things to make everything work again...
Year 2000 all over again, but without the media hype, and more sting in the tail.
Cheers.:wq
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our IPv4 address space will be depleted within the next 3-4 years
People have been saying that for at least the last 4 years.
We will eventually need IPv6, but I don't think it helps to speed migration that its advocates have built up a consistent track record of making false alarmist statements like the above.
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When I said "our IPv4 address space will be depleted within the next 3-4 years" I meant "our" as in the IP address space that is administered by our LIR, not the global address space. Certainly there are places and RIR's that will have slack address space coming out of their ears for some time to come, but it's not an even distribution. "Our" address space is very likely to be depleted within the next 3-4 years, or at least to the extent that it becomes very difficult to manage the remaining allocatable ranges.
Migrating away from IPv4 is unavoidable. We have IPv6 now, it works now (and has some very nice features regardless of the size of it's address space), and the two can coexist vary happily in the mean time, so why do some folks always take the nay-saying denialist approach?
OK, maybe that last sentence was a bit over-done, but I was retaliating to being called "alarmist" when quoted out of context ;-)
Besides, playing with IPv6 is fun, it just takes a while to train your head to remember bigger addresses...
Cheers.:wq
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Seriously, think about the implications of what you have said before making such a ridiculous statement!
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