Hans Witvliet wrote: > On Wed, 2007-04-18 at 17:11 -0400, Dean Collins wrote: >> Hi guys, >> >> I know it’s a little off topic but……Wondering if you can help. >> My wife has been asked to find a writer to produce a story on “The >> dramatic ramifications of IPV6 on commercial businesses and how it >> will change the product designs for ordinary household/commercial use >> in a 5-10 year time frame” > > Ordinary household equipment > Fridge (sending snmp traps if a dork leaves the door open ;) > radio/tv/vcr (obviously) > central heating system > airco > security
One interesting thing is that most of these devices have quite long life-times as do the houses they're installed in. The radio/tv/vcr is changing already - the VCR is dead anyway and the tv/radio is slowly becoming an integrated entertainment system. For the rest, a network connection and an IP-address is only useful if the house is up to it. For those device you've mentioned, the network connection is only any good if it's got somewhere to connect, so a sort of intelligent house is virtually a pre-requisite. > In the good old days, everybody got a fixed ip by default, and some > euro's extra you got four or eight addrresses. Now you are lucky to > get one fixed address. There are still some providers who dish out a fixed address, but they're a rapidly dying species. But if you pay for it, you can have almost anything you want. > The only obstacles currently, are the ISP's. > afaik, all dsl-modems currently can only work with v4. > (correct me if i'm wrong) I think my Cisco 836 does IPV6, but otherwiser I think you're right. But that really means it's the DSL modem manufacturers, not the ISPs that are holding things back still. /Per Jessen, Zürich _______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
