Ryan Malayter wrote: > On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 10:17 AM, Richard B. Gilbert > <[email protected]> wrote: >> IP V6 has been available for at least five or six years now. The >> Solaris X86 install used to ask if we wanted to include support for it >> back in 2004. AFAIK no one uses it because no one routes it. >> >> It's dead in the water until the infrastructure; e.g. routers and >> switches, support it. >> >> AFAIK, that infrastructure support is either missing entirely or there >> is not yet enough of it in place. > > It's not just routers, switches, and firewalls. So many *applications* > presume the use of IPv4 and rely on IP addresses being 32 bits that > the transition is a nightmare. Things like corporate AV software, > IDS/IPS, and even line of business apps like financials packages have > IPv4 dependencies. > > All major OS - even Windows - have had good IPv6 support for 5+ years > now, but the applications in general do not. > > The IETF did us all a disservice with their transition plan... IPv4 > space should have been embedded in IPv6 space, and the new protocol > should have been interoperable with the old to create a smooth > transition. Much like SMTP->ESMTP, for example, which happend > incrementally over the course of a decade.
No. IPv4 in IPv6 was tried and it created a mess. There were lots of issues with it, some of which I had to deal with and it's not pretty. The idea was dropped as unworkable. Danny -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. _______________________________________________ questions mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ntp.org/mailman/listinfo/questions
