Re: Programmers can't get IPv6 thus that is why they do not have IPv6 in their applications....

2013-01-31 Thread David Barak
Looking at http://mydeviceinfo.comcast.net you get a choice of wireless or IPv6 in Arris. I Wish they would ask which you want before install: I already have better wireless, and the Arris ones don't let you disable theirs :/ Thank you for the pointer - perhaps a swap is in order. David

Re: Programmers can't get IPv6 thus that is why they do not have IPv6 in their applications....

2013-01-31 Thread Robert Drake
On 1/30/2013 9:10 PM, David Barak wrote: IPv6 has been launched on all Arris DOCSIS 3.0 C4 CMTSes, covering over 50% our network. The update you sent is lovely, except I can tell you that the one (also an Arris, running DOCSIS 3.0) which was installed in late October in my house in

Re: Programmers can't get IPv6 thus that is why they do not have IPv6 in their applications....

2013-01-30 Thread joel jaeggli
On 11/28/12 4:17 PM, Dobbins, Roland wrote: On Nov 29, 2012, at 3:04 AM, Tony Hain wrote: Getting the cpe vendors to ship in quantity requires the ISP engineering organizations to say in unison we are deploying IPv6 and will only recommend products that pass testing. Do you see any evidence

Re: Programmers can't get IPv6 thus that is why they do not have IPv6 in their applications....

2013-01-30 Thread Cutler James R
On Jan 30, 2013, at 12:43 PM, joel jaeggli joe...@bogus.com wrote: As a product of having a motorola sb6121 and a netgear wndr3700 both of which I bought at frys I have ipv6 in my house with dhcp pd curtesy of commcast. If it was any simpler somebody else would have had to install it.

Re: Programmers can't get IPv6 thus that is why they do not have IPv6 in their applications....

2013-01-30 Thread Michael Thomas
On 01/30/2013 01:51 PM, Cutler James R wrote: On Jan 30, 2013, at 12:43 PM, joel jaeggli joe...@bogus.com wrote: As a product of having a motorola sb6121 and a netgear wndr3700 both of which I bought at frys I have ipv6 in my house with dhcp pd curtesy of commcast. If it was any simpler

Re: Programmers can't get IPv6 thus that is why they do not have IPv6 in their applications....

2013-01-30 Thread Mark Andrews
In message 51099c0f.5040...@mtcc.com, Michael Thomas writes: On 01/30/2013 01:51 PM, Cutler James R wrote: On Jan 30, 2013, at 12:43 PM, joel jaeggli joe...@bogus.com wrote: As a product of having a motorola sb6121 and a netgear wndr3700 both of wh ich I bought at frys I have ipv6 in my

Re: Programmers can't get IPv6 thus that is why they do not have IPv6 in their applications....

2013-01-30 Thread David Barak
Comcast removed the no IPv6 excuse? That removal somehow skipped my house in Washington DC where they installed (last October) a router which does not even support it (an Arrus voice gateway- the one where you can#39;t turn of the crummy 2.4g wireless radio) and none of the folks I#39;ve

Re: Programmers can't get IPv6 thus that is why they do not have IPv6 in their applications....

2013-01-30 Thread Mark Andrews
In message 1359591223.5270.yahoomailmob...@web31809.mail.mud.yahoo.com, David Barak writes: Comcast removed the no IPv6 excuse? That removal somehow skipped my house in Washington DC where they installed (last October) a router which does not even support it (an Arrus voice gateway- the

Re: Programmers can't get IPv6 thus that is why they do not have IPv6 in their applications....

2013-01-30 Thread David Barak
On Jan 30, 2013, at 7:52 PM, Mark Andrews ma...@isc.org wrote: Firstly fix your mail client. What's this #39; garbage in text/plain? That's yahoo web mail on an iPhone, sorry. Deployment Update Published on Tuesday, October 23, 2012 IPv6 has been launched on all Arris DOCSIS 3.0 C4

Re: Programmers can't get IPv6 thus that is why they do not have IPv6 in their applications....

2013-01-30 Thread Justin M. Streiner
On Wed, 30 Jan 2013, David Barak wrote: Comcast removed the no IPv6 excuse? That removal somehow skipped my house in Washington DC where they installed (last October) a router which does not even support it (an Arrus voice gateway- the one where you can#39;t turn of the crummy 2.4g wireless

Re: Programmers can't get IPv6 thus that is why they do not have IPv6 in their applications....

2013-01-30 Thread Jay Ashworth
- Original Message - From: Justin M. Streiner strei...@cluebyfour.org I know Verizon is rolling out v6 in some areas of their FiOS footprint. The router they provided supports it, but what I got from their customer service people was that they ran into some sort of issue with their TV

Re: Programmers can't get IPv6 thus that is why they do not have IPv6 in their applications....

2013-01-30 Thread Justin M. Streiner
On Wed, 30 Jan 2013, David Barak wrote: On Jan 30, 2013, at 7:52 PM, Mark Andrews ma...@isc.org wrote: The update you sent is lovely, except I can tell you that the one (also an Arris, running DOCSIS 3.0) which was installed in late October in my house in Washington simply does not run v6

Re: Programmers can't get IPv6 thus that is why they do not have IPv6 in their applications....

2013-01-30 Thread Mark Andrews
In message 8c10ded0-0980-4c76-8307-4f4f139d6...@yahoo.com, David Barak writes : On Jan 30, 2013, at 7:52 PM, Mark Andrews ma...@isc.org wrote: Firstly fix your mail client. What's this #39; garbage in text/plain? That's yahoo web mail on an iPhone, sorry. Deployment Update

Re: Programmers can't get IPv6 thus that is why they do not have IPv6 in their applications....

2013-01-30 Thread John Osmon
On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 10:22:43PM -0500, Jay Ashworth wrote: VZF's ONTs can't even do *ARP* right, or at least they couldn't as of last March. We expect them to do v6? Perfect! We don't *need* ARP for v6!

Re: Programmers can't get IPv6 thus that is why they do not have IPv6 in their applications....

2012-12-02 Thread Owen DeLong
ps. I work for a division of my employer that does not yet have IPv6 support in its rather popular consumer software product. Demand for IPv6 from our rather large customer base is, at present, essentially nonexistent, and other things would be way above it in the stack-ranked backlog(s)

Re: Programmers can't get IPv6 thus that is why they do not have IPv6 in their applications....

2012-12-02 Thread Matthew Kaufman
On 12/1/2012 11:55 PM, Owen DeLong wrote: Yes, but unlike Skype, most popular applications have competitors and whichever competitor provides the better user experience will cut the others off from a meaningful proportion of their customers. Owen I think you're assuming some magic that lets

Re: Programmers can't get IPv6 thus that is why they do not have IPv6 in their applications....

2012-12-02 Thread Michael Thomas
On 12/01/2012 11:55 PM, Owen DeLong wrote: ps. I work for a division of my employer that does not yet have IPv6 support in its rather popular consumer software product. Demand for IPv6 from our rather large customer base is, at present, essentially nonexistent, and other things would be way

Re: Programmers can't get IPv6 thus that is why they do not have IPv6 in their applications....

2012-12-02 Thread Cameron Byrne
Everything you need to know except for how to actually accomplish this task in the real world. In order to accomplish this in the real world using present-day software development methodologies you would need to do a few more things: - Generate some user stories that explain why the

Re: Programmers can't get IPv6 thus that is why they do not have IPv6 in their applications....

2012-12-02 Thread Mark Andrews
Adding IPv6 support isn't like adding most new features. It doesn't give most people something extra. It doesn't enhance the experience. It is insurance for when the CGN is deployed by the ISP or when the ISP goes IPv6 only and like most insurance you don't know when you will needed and you

Re: Programmers can't get IPv6 thus that is why they do not have IPv6 in their applications....

2012-12-01 Thread Matthew Kaufman
On 11/27/2012 11:48 PM, Owen DeLong wrote: I agree that some of it comes down to knowledge; most programmers learn from experience and lets face it unless you go looking your unlikely to run into IPv6 even as of yet. I believe as the ISP implements IPv6 and companies get more demand on the

Re: Programmers can't get IPv6 thus that is why they do not have IPv6 in their applications....

2012-11-30 Thread Ray Soucy
I'll see your disagree and raise you another ;-) I would say you almost never want to store addresses as character data unless the only thing you're using them for is logging (even then it's questionable). I run into people who do this all the time and it's a nightmare. It's easy to store a v6

Re: Programmers can't get IPv6 thus that is why they do not have IPv6 in their applications....

2012-11-30 Thread Steve Clark
On 11/30/2012 09:45 AM, Ray Soucy wrote: I'll see your disagree and raise you another ;-) I would say you almost never want to store addresses as character data unless the only thing you're using them for is logging (even then it's questionable). I run into people who do this all the time and

Re: Programmers can't get IPv6 thus that is why they do not have IPv6 in their applications....

2012-11-30 Thread William Herrin
On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 9:45 AM, Ray Soucy r...@maine.edu wrote: I'll see your disagree and raise you another ;-) I would say you almost never want to store addresses as character data unless the only thing you're using them for is logging (even then it's questionable). I run into people who

Re: Programmers can't get IPv6 thus that is why they do not have IPv6 in their applications....

2012-11-30 Thread Owen DeLong
On Nov 30, 2012, at 11:09 AM, William Herrin b...@herrin.us wrote: On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 9:45 AM, Ray Soucy r...@maine.edu wrote: I'll see your disagree and raise you another ;-) I would say you almost never want to store addresses as character data unless the only thing you're using

Re: Programmers can't get IPv6 thus that is why they do not have IPv6 in their applications....

2012-11-30 Thread Randy
- Well I want to add my 10 cents, I am a c++ programmer, and have been waiting for my isp to offer native ipv6 for ever. I got fed up with waiting and setup a ipv6 over ipv4 tunnel. So once I got that done, I spent only an hour updating my socket classes to support ipv6. I hadent done so

Re: Programmers can't get IPv6 thus that is why they do not have IPv6 in their applications....

2012-11-30 Thread William Herrin
On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 5:18 PM, Randy na...@afxr.net wrote: - Well I want to add my 10 cents, I am a c++ programmer, and have been waiting for my isp to offer native ipv6 for ever. I got fed up with waiting and setup a ipv6 over ipv4 tunnel. So once I got that done, I spent only an hour

Re: Programmers can't get IPv6 thus that is why they do not have IPv6 in their applications....

2012-11-30 Thread Mark Andrews
In message cap-gugwtcoafenkqsxsssomxmy1sqs2ofaprv26ww+gfvfp...@mail.gmail.com, William Herrin writes: On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 5:18 PM, Randy na...@afxr.net wrote: - Well I want to add my 10 cents, I am a c++ programmer, and have been waiting for my isp to offer native ipv6 for ever. I

RE: Programmers can't get IPv6 thus that is why they do not have IPv6 in their applications....

2012-11-30 Thread Naslund, Steve
I would guess that a lot of the access growth going forward is going to be a lot of what I would term incidental access. More and more devices and technology requires or supports Internet access. So while a lot of people may not ask for internet service that don't already have it, it will be

Re: Programmers can't get IPv6 thus that is why they do not have IPv6 in their applications....

2012-11-30 Thread William Herrin
On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 6:12 PM, Mark Andrews ma...@isc.org wrote: In message cap-gugwtcoafenkqsxsssomxmy1sqs2ofaprv26ww+gfvfp...@mail.gmail.com, William Herrin writes: On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 5:18 PM, Randy na...@afxr.net wrote: It wasn't difficult to update to ipv6, only some reading was

Re: Programmers can't get IPv6 thus that is why they do not have IPv6 in their applications....

2012-11-29 Thread Bjørn Mork
Dobbins, Roland rdobb...@arbor.net writes: On Nov 29, 2012, at 12:18 AM, Bjørn Mork wrote: But I will absolutely refuse the idea that anyone incapable of getting their application tested with IPv6 are able to create any useful networking software. Who's talking about 'networking software'?

Re: Programmers can't get IPv6 thus that is why they do not have IPv6 in their applications....

2012-11-29 Thread Dobbins, Roland
On Nov 29, 2012, at 4:28 PM, Bjørn Mork wrote: If it doesn't do IPv4 then I don't see the need for IPv6 support. To me, 'networking software' software which happens to access the network. Quagga is an example of 'networking software'.

Re: Programmers can't get IPv6 thus that is why they do not have IPv6 in their applications....

2012-11-29 Thread Bjørn Mork
Dobbins, Roland rdobb...@arbor.net writes: On Nov 29, 2012, at 4:28 PM, Bjørn Mork wrote: If it doesn't do IPv4 then I don't see the need for IPv6 support. To me, 'networking software' software which happens to access the network. Quagga is an example of 'networking software'. OK, that

Re: Programmers can't get IPv6 thus that is why they do not have IPv6 in their applications....

2012-11-29 Thread Dobbins, Roland
On Nov 29, 2012, at 6:47 PM, Bjørn Mork wrote: What's the proper term for software which happens to access the network? Just about anything, these days. ; 'Network-enabled' or 'network-capable' software, maybe? --- Roland

Re: Programmers can't get IPv6 thus that is why they do not have IPv6 in their applications....

2012-11-29 Thread .
On 29 November 2012 12:48, Dobbins, Roland rdobb...@arbor.net wrote: On Nov 29, 2012, at 6:47 PM, Bjørn Mork wrote: What's the proper term for software which happens to access the network? Just about anything, these days. ; 'Network-enabled' or 'network-capable' software, maybe?

Re: Programmers can't get IPv6 thus that is why they do not have IPv6 in their applications....

2012-11-29 Thread Jeroen Massar
On 2012-11-29 13:53 , . wrote: On 29 November 2012 12:48, Dobbins, Roland rdobb...@arbor.net wrote: On Nov 29, 2012, at 6:47 PM, Bjørn Mork wrote: What's the proper term for software which happens to access the network? Just about anything, these days. ; 'Network-enabled' or

Re: Programmers can't get IPv6 thus that is why they do not have IPv6 in their applications....

2012-11-29 Thread Ray Soucy
You should store IPv6 as a pair of 64-bit integers. While PHP lacks the function set to do this on its own, it's not very difficult to do. Here are a set of functions I wrote a while back to do just that (though I admit I should spend some time to try and make it more elegant and I'm not sure

Re: Programmers can't get IPv6 thus that is why they do not have IPv6 in their applications....

2012-11-29 Thread William Herrin
On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 1:30 PM, david peahi davidpe...@gmail.com wrote: Do today's programmers still use basic BSD socket programming? Is there an equivalent set of called procedures for IPv6 network application programming? The IPv6 API is BSD sockets. However, unless you were a particularly

Re: Programmers can't get IPv6 thus that is why they do not have IPv6 in their applications....

2012-11-29 Thread William Herrin
On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 9:01 AM, Ray Soucy r...@maine.edu wrote: You should store IPv6 as a pair of 64-bit integers. While PHP lacks the function set to do this on its own, it's not very difficult to do. Hi Ray, I have to disagree. In your SQL database you should store addresses as a fixed

Re: Programmers can't get IPv6 thus that is why they do not have IPv6 in their applications....

2012-11-29 Thread Blake Dunlap
Hadn't thought about it that way before. This was a useful bit of info, thanks. -Blake On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 8:55 AM, William Herrin b...@herrin.us wrote: On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 9:01 AM, Ray Soucy r...@maine.edu wrote: You should store IPv6 as a pair of 64-bit integers. While PHP lacks

Re: Programmers can't get IPv6 thus that is why they do not have IPv6 in their applications....

2012-11-29 Thread Michael Thomas
On 11/28/2012 09:40 PM, Jeroen Massar wrote: On 2012-11-28 18:26, Michael Thomas wrote: It's very presumptuous for you to tell me what my development/test priorities ought to be, and I can tell you for absolute certain that any such badgering will be met with rolled eyes and quick dismissal.

Re: Programmers can't get IPv6 thus that is why they do not have IPv6 in their applications....

2012-11-29 Thread Måns Nilsson
Subject: Re: Programmers can't get IPv6 thus that is why they do not have IPv6 in their applications Date: Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 09:55:19AM -0500 Quoting William Herrin (b...@herrin.us): On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 9:01 AM, Ray Soucy r...@maine.edu wrote: You should store IPv6 as a pair of

Re: Programmers can't get IPv6 thus that is why they do not have IPv6 in their applications....

2012-11-29 Thread Cameron Byrne
Got some bad data here. Let me help. Sent from ipv6-only Android On Nov 29, 2012 8:22 AM, Michael Thomas m...@mtcc.com wrote: Phone apps, by and large, are designed by people in homes or small companies. They do not have v6 connectivity. Full stop. They don't care about v6. Full stop. It's

Re: Programmers can't get IPv6 thus that is why they do not have IPv6 in their applications....

2012-11-29 Thread Michael Thomas
On 11/29/2012 10:36 AM, Cameron Byrne wrote: Got some bad data here. Let me help. Sent from ipv6-only Android On Nov 29, 2012 8:22 AM, Michael Thomas m...@mtcc.com mailto:m...@mtcc.com wrote: Phone apps, by and large, are designed by people in homes or small companies. They do not have v6

Re: Programmers can't get IPv6 thus that is why they do not have IPv6 in their applications....

2012-11-29 Thread Mark Andrews
In message CALFTrnM+a56hx3CP0qqszfNrbirQZOefS_0uHVC8VQk=+qd...@mail.gmail.com , Ray Soucy writes: You should store IPv6 as a pair of 64-bit integers. While PHP lacks the function set to do this on its own, it's not very difficult to do. I did it as a array of 8, 16 bit integers with a old

Re: Programmers can't get IPv6 thus that is why they do not have IPv6 in their applications....

2012-11-29 Thread Owen DeLong
Why would I want to do that instead of store it as a single 128 bit integer or bit-field? Owen Sent from my iPad On Nov 29, 2012, at 6:01 AM, Ray Soucy r...@maine.edu wrote: You should store IPv6 as a pair of 64-bit integers. While PHP lacks the function set to do this on its own, it's

RE: Programmers can't get IPv6 thus that is why they do not have IPv6 in their applications....

2012-11-29 Thread Brandt, Ralph
I have read a little of this BS thread. 1) I have been maintaining a network for 12 years. 2) I am and have been since Feb 1965 a programmer. Anyone who bashes either group has a problem. First, at one time programmers knew bits, bytes, opcodes, machine codes etc. I have written close to

Re: Programmers can't get IPv6 thus that is why they do not have IPv6 in their applications....

2012-11-28 Thread Bjørn Mork
david raistrick dr...@icantclick.org writes: On Tue, 27 Nov 2012, Jeroen Massar wrote: As for actually getting IPv6 at home or at work, there are so many ways to get that, thus not having it is a completely ridiculous excuse. bull. explain using a tunnel broker to anyone who isn't a network

Re: Programmers can't get IPv6 thus that is why they do not have IPv6 in their applications....

2012-11-28 Thread Bryan Tong
On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 2:52 AM, Bjørn Mork bj...@mork.no wrote: david raistrick dr...@icantclick.org writes: On Tue, 27 Nov 2012, Jeroen Massar wrote: As for actually getting IPv6 at home or at work, there are so many ways to get that, thus not having it is a completely ridiculous excuse.

Re: Programmers can't get IPv6 thus that is why they do not have IPv6 in their applications....

2012-11-28 Thread Bjørn Mork
Dobbins, Roland rdobb...@arbor.net writes: On Nov 28, 2012, at 4:52 PM, Bjørn Mork wrote: Do you really want to run netowrking software written by someone incapable of setting up a test network? If you don't think you're running some piece or another of software right this minute which

Re: Programmers can't get IPv6 thus that is why they do not have IPv6 in their applications....

2012-11-28 Thread Dobbins, Roland
On Nov 28, 2012, at 7:23 PM, Bjørn Mork wrote: Anyway, I am not sure which programs that would be. You run a lot more than that in your everyday life. And if you don't, you're atypical. --- Roland Dobbins rdobb...@arbor.net

Re: Programmers can't get IPv6 thus that is why they do not have IPv6 in their applications....

2012-11-28 Thread david raistrick
On Wed, 28 Nov 2012, Bjørn Mork wrote: Do you really want to run netowrking software written by someone incapable of setting up a test network? This doesn't have anything with tunnel brokers or native access to do at all. So the software engineer should now -also- be responsible for, and

Re: Programmers can't get IPv6 thus that is why they do not have IPv6 in their applications....

2012-11-28 Thread Jeroen Massar
On 2012-11-28 17:30 , david raistrick wrote: On Wed, 28 Nov 2012, Bjørn Mork wrote: Do you really want to run netowrking software written by someone incapable of setting up a test network? This doesn't have anything with tunnel brokers or native access to do at all. So the software

Re: Programmers can't get IPv6 thus that is why they do not have IPv6 in their applications....

2012-11-28 Thread david raistrick
On Wed, 28 Nov 2012, Jeroen Massar wrote: Not for faking it, but in the case you mention it is very obvious that the software engineer should be able to ask their network team to make sure that they can access those API's if only for testing... You're assuming, now, that the network team

Re: Programmers can't get IPv6 thus that is why they do not have IPv6 in their applications....

2012-11-28 Thread Bjørn Mork
david raistrick dr...@icantclick.org writes: On Wed, 28 Nov 2012, Bjørn Mork wrote: Do you really want to run netowrking software written by someone incapable of setting up a test network? This doesn't have anything with tunnel brokers or native access to do at all. So the software

Re: Programmers can't get IPv6 thus that is why they do not have IPv6 in their applications....

2012-11-28 Thread david raistrick
On Wed, 28 Nov 2012, Bjørn Mork wrote: Maybe so. But do I _want_ do run that software? No. Anyway, I am not sure which programs that would be. The applications with open sockets on my laptop are currently: I take it you're in the minority who don't play games, use mobile apps on your

Re: Programmers can't get IPv6 thus that is why they do not have IPv6 in their applications....

2012-11-28 Thread Michael Thomas
On 11/28/2012 09:00 AM, Jeroen Massar wrote: And still, if you as a proper engineer where not able to test/add IPv6 code in the last 10++ years, then you did something very very wrong in your job, the least of which is to file a ticket for IPv6 support in the ticket tracking system so that one

Re: Programmers can't get IPv6 thus that is why they do not have IPv6 in their applications....

2012-11-28 Thread david raistrick
On Wed, 28 Nov 2012, Bjørn Mork wrote: Native IPv6 internet access has never been a requirement for developing IPv6 aware applications. That was a bad excuse even 10 years ago. Today it is just ridiculous. I certainly never said that was the case. I built v6 test networks, and helped

Re: Programmers can't get IPv6 thus that is why they do not have IPv6 in their applications....

2012-11-28 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
On Wed, 28 Nov 2012, david raistrick wrote: folks that sign the checks ask for A B and C. And v6 isn't one of those things yet. I believe they ask for the apps to work on the Internet. Part of that requirement is soon to be a requirement for IPv6 support. I believe the person signing the

Re: Programmers can't get IPv6 thus that is why they do not have IPv6 in their applications....

2012-11-28 Thread Måns Nilsson
Subject: Re: Programmers can't get IPv6 thus that is why they do not have IPv6 in their applications Date: Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 06:45:54PM +0100 Quoting Mikael Abrahamsson (swm...@swm.pp.se): I believe they ask for the apps to work on the Internet. Part of that requirement is soon to be

Re: Programmers can't get IPv6 thus that is why they do not have IPv6 in their applications....

2012-11-28 Thread david peahi
Many years ago the standard books on application network programming were based on C language. Books such as Adventures in UNIX Network Programming, and Professor Comer's Internetworking with TCP/IP Vol 3 detailed how to write C programs using BSD sockets where binding to a socket brought the

Re: Programmers can't get IPv6 thus that is why they do not have IPv6 in their applications....

2012-11-28 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
On Wed, 28 Nov 2012, david peahi wrote: On the practical side: Have all programmers created a 128 bit field to store the IPv6 address, where IPv4 programs use a 32 bit field to store the IP address? This would seem to be similar to the year 2000 case where almost all programs required

Re: Programmers can't get IPv6 thus that is why they do not have IPv6 in their applications....

2012-11-28 Thread Ingo Flaschberger
Am 28.11.2012 19:30, schrieb david peahi: Many years ago the standard books on application network programming were based on C language. Books such as Adventures in UNIX Network Programming, and Professor Comer's Internetworking with TCP/IP Vol 3 detailed how to write C programs using BSD

Re: Programmers can't get IPv6 thus that is why they do not have IPv6 in their applications....

2012-11-28 Thread Owen DeLong
On Nov 28, 2012, at 10:47 AM, Ingo Flaschberger i...@xip.at wrote: Am 28.11.2012 19:30, schrieb david peahi: Many years ago the standard books on application network programming were based on C language. Books such as Adventures in UNIX Network Programming, and Professor Comer's

RE: Programmers can't get IPv6 thus that is why they do not have IPv6 in their applications....

2012-11-28 Thread Tony Hain
Dobbins, Roland wrote: On Nov 28, 2012, at 11:18 AM, Andrew Sullivan wrote: If the entire deployment path automatically requires 84 layers of NAT sludge, that's what gets tested, cause it works for everybody. Hence my questions regarding the actual momentum behind end-to-end native IPv6

Re: Programmers can't get IPv6 thus that is why they do not have IPv6 in their applications....

2012-11-28 Thread Michael Thomas
On 11/28/2012 10:30 AM, david peahi wrote: On the practical side: Have all programmers created a 128 bit field to store the IPv6 address, where IPv4 programs use a 32 bit field to store the IP address? This would seem to be similar to the year 2000 case where almost all programs required

RE: Programmers can't get IPv6 thus that is why they do not have IPv6 in their applications....

2012-11-28 Thread Lee Howard
-Original Message- From: Owen DeLong [mailto:o...@delong.com] That won't help. Think about it this way. A session state log entry is roughly 512 bytes. [math redacted] you're still looking at roughly 85 Petabytes of storage required to meet CALEA standards. I've done my share of

Re: Programmers can't get IPv6 thus that is why they do not have IPv6 in their applications....

2012-11-28 Thread Mark Andrews
In message 009301cdcdb2$e4f55ad0$aee01070$@asgard.org, Lee Howard writes: Doesn't matter, because the servers aren't logging port number, so nobody will ever need to see those logs. We log port numbers along with addresses in named as it is necessary to trouble shoot problems. We have been

Re: Programmers can't get IPv6 thus that is why they do not have IPv6 in their applications....

2012-11-28 Thread Dobbins, Roland
On Nov 29, 2012, at 3:04 AM, Tony Hain wrote: Getting the cpe vendors to ship in quantity requires the ISP engineering organizations to say in unison we are deploying IPv6 and will only recommend products that pass testing. Do you see any evidence of that occurring? I don't. Also, a lot

Re: Programmers can't get IPv6 thus that is why they do not have IPv6 in their applications....

2012-11-28 Thread Dobbins, Roland
On Nov 29, 2012, at 12:18 AM, Bjørn Mork wrote: But I will absolutely refuse the idea that anyone incapable of getting their application tested with IPv6 are able to create any useful networking software. Who's talking about 'networking software'? 'Networking software' is irrelevant for

Re: Programmers can't get IPv6 thus that is why they do not have IPv6 in their applications....

2012-11-28 Thread Mark Andrews
In message cfb0f4de-3e7e-4cc2-a491-3b0e9741c...@arbor.net, Dobbins, Roland writes: On Nov 29, 2012, at 12:18 AM, Bj=F8rn Mork wrote: But I will absolutely refuse the idea that anyone incapable of getting their application tested with IPv6 are able to create any useful networking

Re: Programmers can't get IPv6 thus that is why they do not have IPv6 in their applications....

2012-11-28 Thread Dobbins, Roland
On Nov 29, 2012, at 7:42 AM, Mark Andrews wrote: Read the Subject. Nothing about 'networking software' there . . . Unless your definition of 'networking software' is 'software which has an inherent capability to transmit/receive data over the network', which would include lots of lots of

Re: Programmers can't get IPv6 thus that is why they do not have IPv6 in their applications....

2012-11-28 Thread Owen DeLong
On Nov 28, 2012, at 4:17 PM, Dobbins, Roland rdobb...@arbor.net wrote: On Nov 29, 2012, at 3:04 AM, Tony Hain wrote: Getting the cpe vendors to ship in quantity requires the ISP engineering organizations to say in unison we are deploying IPv6 and will only recommend products that pass

Re: Programmers can't get IPv6 thus that is why they do not have IPv6 in their applications....

2012-11-28 Thread Jeroen Massar
On 2012-11-28 18:26, Michael Thomas wrote: On 11/28/2012 09:00 AM, Jeroen Massar wrote: And still, if you as a proper engineer where not able to test/add IPv6 code in the last 10++ years, then you did something very very wrong in your job, the least of which is to file a ticket for IPv6

Programmers can't get IPv6 thus that is why they do not have IPv6 in their applications....

2012-11-27 Thread Jeroen Massar
On 2012-11-27 20:21, mike wrote: On 11/26/12 9:32 PM, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote: 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. This is a point that is probably more significant than is

Re: Programmers can't get IPv6 thus that is why they do not have IPv6 in their applications....

2012-11-27 Thread Joseph Holsten
On 2012-11-27, at 21:07, Jeroen Massar wrote: As such, if an application does not do proper IPv6 today the people in charge of the thing simply did not care... Or do care. From http://wiki.apache.org/hadoop/HadoopIPv6: Apache Hadoop does not currently support IPv6 networks, it uses IPv4

Re: Programmers can't get IPv6 thus that is why they do not have IPv6 in their applications....

2012-11-27 Thread david raistrick
On Tue, 27 Nov 2012, Jeroen Massar wrote: As for actually getting IPv6 at home or at work, there are so many ways to get that, thus not having it is a completely ridiculous excuse. bull. explain using a tunnel broker to anyone who isn't a network engineer. oh, and then make that work

Re: Programmers can't get IPv6 thus that is why they do not have IPv6 in their applications....

2012-11-27 Thread Bryan Tong
Personally I have ran into this dilema a few times. The code just like network equipment needs dual stacks which is double the amount of code and since IPv4 and IPv6 do not share a native topology just supporting both kinds of addresses isnt sufficient. I agree that some of it comes down to

Re: Programmers can't get IPv6 thus that is why they do not have IPv6 in their applications....

2012-11-27 Thread Mark Andrews
In message 84f8debc-c754-4d06-99b0-405cc8a35...@josephholsten.com, Joseph Hol sten writes: On 2012-11-27, at 21:07, Jeroen Massar wrote: As such, if an application does not do proper IPv6 today the people in charge of the thing simply did not care... Or do care.=20 =46rom

Re: Programmers can't get IPv6 thus that is why they do not have IPv6 in their applications....

2012-11-27 Thread Michael Thomas
On 11/27/2012 01:07 PM, Jeroen Massar wrote: On 2012-11-27 20:21, mike wrote: This is a point that is probably more significant than is appreciated. If the app, IT, and networking ecosystem don't even have access to ipv6 to play around with, you can be guaranteed that they are going to be

Re: Programmers can't get IPv6 thus that is why they do not have IPv6 in their applications....

2012-11-27 Thread Mark Andrews
In message alpine.bsf.2.00.1211271621190.85...@murf.icantclick.org, david rai strick writes: On Tue, 27 Nov 2012, Jeroen Massar wrote: As for actually getting IPv6 at home or at work, there are so many ways to get that, thus not having it is a completely ridiculous excuse. bull.

Re: Programmers can't get IPv6 thus that is why they do not have IPv6 in their applications....

2012-11-27 Thread Jared Mauch
On Nov 27, 2012, at 4:30 PM, Bryan Tong cont...@nullivex.com wrote: Personally I have ran into this dilema a few times. The code just like network equipment needs dual stacks which is double the amount of code and since IPv4 and IPv6 do not share a native topology just supporting both

Re: Programmers can't get IPv6 thus that is why they do not have IPv6 in their applications....

2012-11-27 Thread William Herrin
On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 4:07 PM, Jeroen Massar jer...@unfix.org wrote: I cannot be saf for the people who claim to be programmers who do things with networking and who do not care to follow the heavy hints that they have been getting for at least the last 10 years that their applications need

Re: Programmers can't get IPv6 thus that is why they do not have IPv6 in their applications....

2012-11-27 Thread david raistrick
On Wed, 28 Nov 2012, Mark Andrews wrote: oh, and then make that work inside a typical F500 corp network with restrictions on inbound and outbound ports, no admin user access to desktop machines, etc. And if they are developing a product for the company there are procedures to get the changes

Re: Programmers can't get IPv6 thus that is why they do not have IPv6 in their applications....

2012-11-27 Thread Mark Andrews
In message cap-guguzu-or-gtrp3vdahpk-btam1gzyt8ytjf0ppcb8ke...@mail.gmail.com , William Herrin writes: On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 4:07 PM, Jeroen Massar jer...@unfix.org wrote: I cannot be saf for the people who claim to be programmers who do things with networking and who do not care to follow

Re: Programmers can't get IPv6 thus that is why they do not have IPv6 in their applications....

2012-11-27 Thread Owen DeLong
On Nov 27, 2012, at 1:26 PM, david raistrick dr...@icantclick.org wrote: On Tue, 27 Nov 2012, Jeroen Massar wrote: As for actually getting IPv6 at home or at work, there are so many ways to get that, thus not having it is a completely ridiculous excuse. bull. explain using a tunnel

Re: Programmers can't get IPv6 thus that is why they do not have IPv6 in their applications....

2012-11-27 Thread Owen DeLong
I agree that some of it comes down to knowledge; most programmers learn from experience and lets face it unless you go looking your unlikely to run into IPv6 even as of yet. I believe as the ISP implements IPv6 and companies get more demand on the customer facing side of things it will pick

Re: Programmers can't get IPv6 thus that is why they do not have IPv6 in their applications....

2012-11-27 Thread Tim Chown
On 27 Nov 2012, at 23:44, Owen DeLong o...@delong.com wrote: Given the number of network engineers compared to the number of tunnel broker subscribers just at Hurricane Electric, I don't think that argument holds water. We have actually made using a tunnel broker very easy and provide

Re: Programmers can't get IPv6 thus that is why they do not have IPv6 in their applications....

2012-11-27 Thread Michael Thomas
On 11/27/2012 03:44 PM, Owen DeLong wrote: I would think that a developer of corporate network-based applications that is worth his salt would be one of the people pushing the IT/Neteng group to give him the tools to do his job. If he waits until they are implementing IPv6 on corporate

Re: Programmers can't get IPv6 thus that is why they do not have IPv6 in their applications....

2012-11-27 Thread William Herrin
On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 6:29 PM, Mark Andrews ma...@isc.org wrote: I've coded for platforms that I have never worked on. It's a little more difficult but not impossible. I've debugged problems on machines that I don't have access to. Again it is more difficult but not impossible. Sure, but

RE: Programmers can't get IPv6 thus that is why they do not have IPv6 in their applications....

2012-11-27 Thread Dave Edelman
I think that we are missing a significant part of this conversation. Even if programmers never write a line of code that invokes IPv6, they need to accommodate the effects of all the other programmers who aren't writing a line of IPv6 code. CGN renders most application logs useless unless they

Re: Programmers can't get IPv6 thus that is why they do not have IPv6 in their applications....

2012-11-27 Thread Owen DeLong
On Nov 27, 2012, at 19:18 , Dave Edelman dedel...@iname.com wrote: I think that we are missing a significant part of this conversation. Even if programmers never write a line of code that invokes IPv6, they need to accommodate the effects of all the other programmers who aren't writing a

Re: Programmers can't get IPv6 thus that is why they do not have IPv6 in their applications....

2012-11-27 Thread Andrew Sullivan
On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 08:41:13AM +1100, Mark Andrews wrote: If they are writing network based code a tunnel broker should not be a issue. Tunnel brokers are not that hard to use. They are after all just a VPN and millions of road warriers use them everyday. Oh, for crumb's sake. You're

Re: Programmers can't get IPv6 thus that is why they do not have IPv6 in their applications....

2012-11-27 Thread Dobbins, Roland
On Nov 28, 2012, at 11:18 AM, Andrew Sullivan wrote: If the entire deployment path automatically requires 84 layers of NAT sludge, that's what gets tested, cause it works for everybody. Hence my questions regarding the actual momentum behind end-to-end native IPv6 deployment. Inertia is

Re: Programmers can't get IPv6 thus that is why they do not have IPv6 in their applications....

2012-11-27 Thread Mark Andrews
In message 20121128041816.gf1...@dyn.com, Andrew Sullivan writes: On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 08:41:13AM +1100, Mark Andrews wrote: If they are writing network based code a tunnel broker should not be a issue. Tunnel brokers are not that hard to use. They are after all just a VPN and

Re: Programmers can't get IPv6 thus that is why they do not have IPv6 in their applications....

2012-11-27 Thread Michael Thomas
On 11/27/2012 09:00 PM, Mark Andrews wrote: In message 20121128041816.gf1...@dyn.com, Andrew Sullivan writes: On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 08:41:13AM +1100, Mark Andrews wrote: If they are writing network based code a tunnel broker should not be a issue. Tunnel brokers are not that hard to use.

Re: Programmers can't get IPv6 thus that is why they do not have IPv6 in their applications....

2012-11-27 Thread Dobbins, Roland
On Nov 28, 2012, at 12:00 PM, Mark Andrews wrote: And using some tunnel brokers are just as easy. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curse_of_knowledge ; --- Roland Dobbins rdobb...@arbor.net // http://www.arbornetworks.com

Re: Programmers can't get IPv6 thus that is why they do not have IPv6 in their applications....

2012-11-27 Thread Andrew Sullivan
On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 09:04:56PM -0800, Michael Thomas wrote: Let's be clear: nobody sets up a VPN because they want to. And further, only people who think cell phones are newfangled think that configuring dial-up before ppp was available is a test we can apply to _anything_ for the quality

Re: Programmers can't get IPv6 thus that is why they do not have IPv6 in their applications....

2012-11-27 Thread Nigel Stepp
On 11/27/2012 09:20 PM, Dobbins, Roland wrote: On Nov 28, 2012, at 12:00 PM, Mark Andrews wrote: And using some tunnel brokers are just as easy. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curse_of_knowledge ; When I subscribed I never dreamed I would post anything, as I am not a network engineer,

Re: Programmers can't get IPv6 thus that is why they do not have IPv6 in their applications....

2012-11-27 Thread Dobbins, Roland
On Nov 28, 2012, at 12:32 PM, Nigel Stepp wrote: So there's one data point with the promise of others. You are atypical in comparison the the legions of ordinary developers within enterprise organizations, in terms of your skillset, your breadth of perspective, and your ability to effectuate

Re: Programmers can't get IPv6 thus that is why they do not have IPv6 in their applications....

2012-11-27 Thread Mark Andrews
In message 69adb141-d40b-4dfb-8fbc-d0863897b...@delong.com, Owen DeLong write s: On Nov 27, 2012, at 19:18 , Dave Edelman dedel...@iname.com wrote: I think that we are missing a significant part of this conversation.=20= =20 Even if programmers never write a line of code that invokes

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