[158254] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Big day for IPv6 - 1% native penetration
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark Andrews)
Tue Nov 27 00:56:58 2012
To: Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike@swm.pp.se>
From: Mark Andrews <marka@isc.org>
In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 27 Nov 2012 06:32:27 BST."
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Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2012 16:56:32 +1100
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
In message <alpine.DEB.2.00.1211270628380.27834@uplift.swm.pp.se>, Mikael Abrah
amsson writes:
> On Tue, 27 Nov 2012, Dobbins, Roland wrote:
>
> > Yet everyone (except you) insist that it does work with everything, and
> > that all this CGN and 444 stuff and 644 stuff isn't necessary, and that
> > I'm a fool for doubting all these (to me) wildly overoptimistic
> > assertions about the coming ubiquity of native IPv6, end-to-end, heh.
>
> Dual stack works with "everything". IPv6 only access does not (with
> 464XLAT it might). However, people are complaining that operators are
> focusing more on CGN and NAT44(4) than they are on IPv6. Which I can
> understand, but I believe we're getting closer to getting out of the dead
> lock. My hope is that 2013 is going to be the year we're going to see
> widespread IPv6 (dual stack) adoption on mobile devices outside of the US.
> It's looking good so far.
>
> People are advocating dual stack now (at least that's what I do), for a
> future goal of IPv6 only.
>
> The main problem with IPv6 only is that most app developers (most
> programmers totally) do not really have access to this, so no testing is
> being done.
IPv6 only is easy to setup if you already have dual stack.
On my Mac it is "System Preferences", "Network Preferences",
"Advanced", "TCP/IP", "IPv4 -> Off" then reboot to clear any lingering
IPv4 references.
It's about as easy on a Linux and a *BSD box.
Mark
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