Same here... If you haven't started reading up on it, now would be a good time...
*ASB *(Find me online via About.Me <http://about.me/Andrew.S.Baker/bio>) *Exploiting Technology for Business Advantage... * On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 1:07 AM, Ryan Finnesey < [email protected]> wrote: > We have started to switch most of our internal systems over. The real > problem we are having is that external systems/orgs we need to connect > to do not yet support IPv6. > > -----Original Message----- > From: N Parr [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Friday, February 04, 2011 10:04 AM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: RE: [semi-OT] Last IPv4 address blocks assigned > > I don't see/understand much of a need for most shops to switch > internally for a very long time. Like you said with IPX hanging around. > I think IPV4 will last for much longer than IPX did. A) like you said > all the legacy devices, B) eventually when you can't get anything but a > v6 public facing address won't you just let your v6 capable > router/firewall do the address translation for you. You won't need to > be on v6 internal to get to the public net. > > And the talk about selling off v4 address's. If it is actually legal > and there is a structure to do so, I don't know. It's not like a domain > name is it? But lets say it happens, there's some good incentive for > owners of large blocks to convert to v6, sell their v4 and that in turn > frees up more v4 address's. That would potentially free up v4 for a > long time to come. You think about all the ISP's out there that have a > huge investment in customer equipment that can't support v6. It might > be more cost effective to buy v4 address's if they were for sale then > start swapping cable/dsl modems. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Ben Scott [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Friday, February 04, 2011 8:40 AM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: Re: [semi-OT] Last IPv4 address blocks assigned > > On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 9:21 AM, Michael B. Smith <[email protected]> > wrote: > > http://ipv6forum.se/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/ipv6-for-dumm > > ies-se-090120.pdf > > Well, it's a document worth getting. > > The doc covers Cisco routers excellently (being from Cisco, one would > expect this), and does a fair job with many of the concepts. > But I expect the real challenges with IPv6 will not be getting a router > that works. Or configuring the common OSes. The real trouble will be > the legions of embedded systems which are IPv4 only, the applications > which fall apart when anything changes, and the misconfigured networks > one wants to route to/though. > > I envision many shops will end up with desktops running IPv6 to get to > the public net, with a fleet of IPv-4-only equipment and apps within the > organization. Somewhat similar to how many NetWare shops ran "IPX for > the LAN, IP for the web" for years. > > -- Ben > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
