In message <[email protected]>, Mikael Abrah amsson writes: > On Tue, 27 Nov 2012, Dobbins, Roland wrote: > > > Yet everyone (except you) insist that it does work with everything, and > > that all this CGN and 444 stuff and 644 stuff isn't necessary, and that > > I'm a fool for doubting all these (to me) wildly overoptimistic > > assertions about the coming ubiquity of native IPv6, end-to-end, heh. > > Dual stack works with "everything". IPv6 only access does not (with > 464XLAT it might). However, people are complaining that operators are > focusing more on CGN and NAT44(4) than they are on IPv6. Which I can > understand, but I believe we're getting closer to getting out of the dead > lock. My hope is that 2013 is going to be the year we're going to see > widespread IPv6 (dual stack) adoption on mobile devices outside of the US. > It's looking good so far. > > People are advocating dual stack now (at least that's what I do), for a > future goal of IPv6 only. > > The main problem with IPv6 only is that most app developers (most > programmers totally) do not really have access to this, so no testing is > being done.
IPv6 only is easy to setup if you already have dual stack. On my Mac it is "System Preferences", "Network Preferences", "Advanced", "TCP/IP", "IPv4 -> Off" then reboot to clear any lingering IPv4 references. It's about as easy on a Linux and a *BSD box. Mark -- Mark Andrews, ISC 1 Seymour St., Dundas Valley, NSW 2117, Australia PHONE: +61 2 9871 4742 INTERNET: [email protected]
