[136636] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: quietly....
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Roland Perry)
Thu Feb 3 18:10:14 2011
Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2011 23:06:55 +0000
To: nanog@nanog.org
From: Roland Perry <lists@internetpolicyagency.com>
In-Reply-To: <20110203220604.A8BAE9A5102@drugs.dv.isc.org>
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In article <20110203220604.A8BAE9A5102@drugs.dv.isc.org>, Mark Andrews
<marka@isc.org> writes
>> In any event, two of my applications are not IPv6 compatible, and would
>> require significant upgrading. And will my ADSL provider and my 3G
>> provider both switch to IPv6 at about the same time?
>
>You shouldn't have to care. Properly written clients will connect
>over whatever is available without significant delay and since you
>are multi-homed
I'd call it more alternate-homed.
>you really do want your clients to be properly written. If they are
>not complain to your vendor as they are not meeting the RFC 1123
>requirements.
One client is no longer maintained (but I am very attached to it). The
other is nailed inside a five-year-old VoIP box and I suspect they'll
say "buy a new one".
These are just my straw poll of what may be difficult for small
enterprises in a change to IPv6.
--
Roland Perry
