------------------------------------------------------------------------ A poll associated with this post was created, to vote and see the results, please visit http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=53800 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Question: Should IPv6 be supported? - Yes - No - I Don't Really Care - What Is IPv6 Anyway? ------------------------------------------------------------------------
I voted "don't care". At my job, I'm on a team that is adding IPv6 capability to a VIOP gateway. The compelling reason is to make the IT depts. of larger companies happy. Some locations (I believe the US govt. is one of them) will not allow new equipment into their data center that isn't IPv6 capable. If it weren't for this madate, we wouldn't be doing it. NAT technology has made the problem that IPv6 solves much less urgent and some would argue makes IPv6 unncessary. However, NAT breaks with the general philosophy of all networked devices being directly addressable over the Internet. A day is invisioned where you will want to be able to address your toaster, coffee maker, and refridgerator from your hotel room over the Internet. Since IPv6 is rolled out with dual protocol stacks for backwards compatability with IPv4 devices, I don't think we have to worry about our SB devices anytime soon. Here are some interesting articles on the topic: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ipv6 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPv6_deployment And why not make the jump to IPv9 because China's gotta be different! :-) : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPv9#Version_history -- maggior Rich --------- Setup: 2 SB3s, 1 duet, 1 receiver. SuSE 10.2 Server running SqueezeCenter 7.2, MusicIP, and SqueezeSlave http://www.last.fm/user/maggior ------------------------------------------------------------------------ maggior's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9080 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=53800 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
