[173663] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Carrier Grade NAT
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Doug Barton)
Wed Jul 30 12:43:28 2014
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2014 09:43:19 -0700
From: Doug Barton <dougb@dougbarton.us>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <20140730161657.GA25370@cmadams.net>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
On 07/30/2014 09:16 AM, Chris Adams wrote:
> Once upon a time, Corey Touchet <corey.touchet@corp.totalserversolutions.com> said:
>> Comcast is pushing over 1TBPS of IPv6 traffic, but Iım sure thatıs mainly
>> video from Youtube and Netflix.
>
> One thing to remember about the video services that do support IPv6 is
> that a lot of end users, even if they have IPv6 in the home, won't see
> them over IPv6. Many people watch Netflix and such from TV-connected
> devices like DVD/Blu-Ray players, "smart" TVs, Xboxes, TiVos, etc. Many
> (most?) of these devices don't support IPv6, and many never will
> (because they don't get firmware updates much after release).
In the game console market, from what I could see from some quick
searches, Xbox and Wii do v6, but PS4 does not. And as time goes on more
things will do v6, not less. :)
The time for using "$FOO does not support IPv6, so I don't have to
enable it" as an excuse is way past over.
Doug
