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Dr Small
February 22nd, 2008, 10:59 PM
I found this article on slashdot, and here is the link:
http://community.zdnet.co.uk/blog/0,1000000567,10007354o-2000331777b,00.htm

The question is, should we all start embracing and using IPv6 instead of IPv4? If so, how? It seems like a very confusing mess to me, to say the least.

Dr Small
zmjjmz
February 23rd, 2008, 12:39 AM
This will happen by 2010 - at best, by 2012
...

at best, by 2012
...

2012
:shock:
Dr Small
February 23rd, 2008, 12:43 AM
Yeah... my thoughts exactly.
So, haw do we begin using IPv6??
Techwiz
February 23rd, 2008, 12:49 AM
Not my Interwebz! It's the end of the world as we know it...
k2t0f12d
February 23rd, 2008, 12:58 AM
Huh? Y2K? Oh f%^&, not again...
*starts filling his basement with bottled water and canned rations...again*
Iceni
February 23rd, 2008, 01:01 AM
Huh? Y2K? Oh f%^&, not again...
*starts filling his basement with bottled water and canned rations...again*

still have some left here.
fatality_uk
February 23rd, 2008, 01:05 AM
Huh? Y2K? Oh f%^&, not again...
*starts filling his basement with bottled water and canned rations...again*

Hey don't knock it. There are some of us who made *cough* a little bit of cash from Y2K'ing machines :)

This is a great read

http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4779.txt
LaRoza
February 23rd, 2008, 01:26 AM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_y36fG2Oba0
mips
February 23rd, 2008, 12:16 PM
I heard this 10yrs ago. I don't really see it as a problem, when push comes to shove it will happen. Most ISPs & Telcos are already running IPv6 on their backbones anyway, switching the clients over won't be hard.
mips
February 23rd, 2008, 12:17 PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_y36fG2Oba0

Thanks, I had a good laugh ;)
SuperMike
February 23rd, 2008, 12:56 PM
Guys. Last I heard, the Chinese populace and the US Military are snatching up blocks of IPs like crazy. So, my take is that it won't be 2012, but probably 2010.

It sucks, though. I mean, my computer speeds up when I disable IPv6 -- both on Vista and on Ubuntu. (I use Vista so that I can test IE 7 against sites I build.)
insane_alien
February 23rd, 2008, 02:12 PM
the connection speed sucking with ipv6 enabled will not be a problem when ISP's and such switch to ipv6. ipv4 will probably be removed.

if ipv6 is eneabled on an ipv6 network its as fast as ever.(i really think they should just bite the bullet and start upgrading now. then they won't have to upgrade on this scale for hundreds of years and i can get a static ip for each of my computers.