On 25/05/2020 20:02, Paul Mansfield wrote:
So is it actually feasible to announce *any* date when IPv6 will be
the only connectivity offered to the end user?
No.
Firstly, I'm a big IPv6 advocate, however...
Secondly - with my business ISP hat on, businesses are only very, very
rarely asking for it.
The 3 men and a dog local IT companies that set their shitty draytek
router up don't understand it.
If I just go and turn it on without telling them and something gets a
global IPv6 address that should be firewalled but isn't, and it gets
compromised and they end up with a data breach or a load of fraud or
something which damages their company, and then I might end up being
pursued for damages.
On the other hand if you enable it on things like student halls and
public wifi hotspots then it takes a *lot* of the load off your NAT
devices and this is really great.
We're going to be in a v4/v6 mixed world for a long time yet and
unfortunately you can't just wave a magic wand to change that.
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Tom
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