I was a bit surprised that gov is requiring contractors adopt IPV6 already. I have heard that the telcos are implementing IPV6 for cell phones. Most IPV6 implementations are using tunneling to ease the transition at this point.
--- jbharrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 1 Nov 2006 11:42:56 -0800 (PST), Randall > Shimizu wrote > > > IPV6 is coming fast: US gov going to require to > > > implentation within 20 months..!! > > > > > It's time to start boning up and honing your > IPV6 > > > subnetting skills because this means that IPV6 > is > > > coming down the pike. My guess is that the US > gov > > > will > > > require it's subcontractors to adopt IPV6 > products > > > and compability tests. > > It's already a big part of the DOD contracting > world. You can't bid on a > current Gov networking contract that does not > include the GIG-BE and IPv6 as > part of your proposal. > > IPv6 gives you enough IP addresses for the entire > world to have 5,000 IP > addresses assigned to each square micro-inch of > space. Having said that, you > should really look at the Pandora's box that's going > to open up. > > For example, "Vulnerabilities in TCP/IP IPv6 Could > Allow Denial of Service > (922819)" CVE-2004-0790, CVE-2004-0230, > CVE-2005-0688. > > Affected Software: > Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 1 and Microsoft > Windows XP Service Pack 2 > Microsoft Windows XP Professional x64 Edition > Microsoft Windows Server 2003 and Microsoft Windows > Server 2003 Service Pack 1 > Microsoft Windows Server 2003 for Itanium-based > Systems and Microsoft Windows > Server 2003 with SP1 for Itanium-based Systems > Microsoft Windows Server 2003 x64 Edition > > Non-Affected Software: > Microsoft Windows 2000 Service Pack 4 > > AFAIK, Windows Vista was added to the affected part > of this list in addition > to having firewall problems filtering IPv6 packets. > > And, to add to that "Cisco Internetwork Operating > System (IOS®) Software is > vulnerable to a Denial of Service (DoS) and > potentially an arbitrary code > execution attack" > > So far, these vulnerabilities announced this year > affect over 98% of the > world's computing and network environment. > > Still want to run IPv6??? > > -- > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Brinkley Harrell > http://www.fusemeister.com > > > -- > [email protected] > http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list > -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
