On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 05:21:17PM -0800, Leslie S Satenstein wrote: > Hi Hendrik > What about all the routers out there? Would not the ISP do the translation > from ipv6 to ipv4 for you? And yes, you should still have your static ip > address.
That would have been nice. But I gather some of the higher-level protocols are different, using pecific features of IPv6, and protocol translation may not be trivial. That said, it's probably somewhat feasible to so a somewhat decent job. The basic problem is that the IPv6 inventors had not planned interoperability between IPv4 and IPv6. They had some idea that everyone would gradually acquire dual-stack systems that could operate in both modes. But in real-life terms, that hasn't happened. Oh, countries who were originally allocated a critical shortage of class A networks have already gone and done this because they had to. But North America is a holdout. And the annoying thing is that most current OS's, such as Windows, OS/X Macs, Linuxes already are IPv6-capable. It's the ISPs that are the bottleneck. I actually don't know which routers do IPv6 and which don't. I suspect in any case that it's just a firmware change. If the manufacturer still suupports that router model, anyway. Otherwise firmware might be hard to come by. -- hendrik _______________________________________________ mlug mailing list [email protected] https://listes.koumbit.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-listserv.mlug.ca
