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pfarrell;608229 Wrote: > >> I just don't see it happening in the US because the ISPs are > dragging > >> their feet. > > > > Really? > > Really. My ISP (Cox Communcations) responded with "what is that" when > I > called and asked to get an IPv6 modem to my house. > > You cite Verizon starting to test over Fios. The net has allocated its > last IPv4 block this week. Its all NAT from here on out. > > There is a big IPv6 test scheduled for June. If it works, commercial > rollout will start then. > > Lots of feet dragging. > > Cisco has been making products and giving presentations and really > pushing this for years, because they will get to sell tons of new > routers, "cable modems" etc. I would expect ANY ISP customer service to respond "What's that?". They're not usually the brightest of the bunch when it comes to the latest and greatest IT stuff. If they're not spoon-fed information about new technologies, they don't usually know what they are. BTW... 'Cox is doing IPv6 trials' (http://www.cable360.net/ct/data/Cox-Readies-to-Support-IPv6_43852.html) as well. Verizon's initial IPv6 tests over FiOS were last year around April, about the same time as Comcast started doing their initial tests as well. And by the way... just because all of the IPv4 blocks have been handed out to the regional NICs doesn't mean that EVERY address is in use as of yesterday. Keep in mind that EVERY class A (/8)is 16.5 million IP addresses... APNIC just received three of those (the last two that could be requested, as well as a third that was part of the automatic distribution). That 49+ million IP addresses will likely allow them to get through most of this year, if not into next year. Similarly, the other regional NIC's likely have more than a few smaller blocks of addresses still available, in addition to the 16.5 million that they each just received. The clock is ticking, yes... but it's not doomsday yet. It's definitely time for companies making networked devices to begin putting IPv6 support in though... it will be here before we all know it. -- virgiliomi home: sb boom and duet sb server 7.5.2 on a readynas ultra 2 plus work: sb radio connected to mysqueezebox.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------ virgiliomi's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=33715 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=53800 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
