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I now receive a block of IPv6 from Comcast. I allow the router to assign them to devices on the network, but I admit that I am somewhat worried that my local PC is no longer isolated from the Internet by a private IP.
Would have been awfully nice to have a reserved bit in hindsight. 7 bit ASCII was an amazing accident. (Maybe it wasn't, time to brush up on my history...)
Unfortunately my perception is that IPv6 deployment is stalled (due to inaction by ISPs). In my company we have recently dismantled some of our IPv6 infrastructure because it became apparent that ubiquitous v6 connectivity was not coming any time soon (e.g. we have locations served by Charter/Spectrum, and they have no IPv6 and no plan to deploy it). We've instead deployed a private IPv4 overlay network between our s…
It's not a fast process, but I don't see any evidence it is stalled.
Unfortunately my perception is that IPv6 deployment is stalled (due to inaction by ISPs). In my company we have recently dismantled some of our IPv6 infrastructure because it became apparent that ubiquitous v6 connectivity was not coming any time soon (e.g. we have locations served by Charter/Spectrum, and they have no IPv6 and no plan to deploy it). We've instead deployed a private IPv4 overlay network between our s…
All the big ISPs have been testing IPv6 for years now and I'm sure it's just a matter of flipping a switch. Now that a new contender is in town (a 4th ISP) and they're having huge problems because they have no IP addresses left to assign to their customers, I suppose the rest of ISPs will stall even more their transition to IPv6 so they can try and "suffocate" the new ISP.
Just my two cents...
Unfortunately my perception is that IPv6 deployment is stalled (due to inaction by ISPs). In my company we have recently dismantled some of our IPv6 infrastructure because it became apparent that ubiquitous v6 connectivity was not coming any time soon (e.g. we have locations served by Charter/Spectrum, and they have no IPv6 and no plan to deploy it). We've instead deployed a private IPv4 overlay network between our s…
I don't think that perception is accurate. Google's IPv6 tracker shows continual progress: https://www.google.com/intl/en/ipv6/statistics.html (with the expected bumps around weekends and holidays) It's not a fast process, but I don't see any evidence it is stalled.
Unfortunately my perception is that IPv6 deployment is stalled (due to inaction by ISPs). In my company we have recently dismantled some of our IPv6 infrastructure because it became apparent that ubiquitous v6 connectivity was not coming any time soon (e.g. we have locations served by Charter/Spectrum, and they have no IPv6 and no plan to deploy it). We've instead deployed a private IPv4 overlay network between our s…
Forward-thinking network operators (like Verizon Wireless or Comcast or T-Mobile USA) have taken advantage of the LTE and DOCSIS 3 transitions (which inherently involve installing and provisioning new hardware on a massive scale) to properly provision and deploy IPv6 to their customers.
There's plenty of large eyeball networks (https://www.akamai.com/uk/en/about/our-thinking/state-of-the... , click on "Networks" to sort by traffic volume, the second column is the percentage of requests from that network via IPv6) that have working IPv6 deployed and used to a significant percentage of their subscribers -- some around 80%.
I now receive a block of IPv6 from Comcast. I allow the router to assign them to devices on the network, but I admit that I am somewhat worried that my local PC is no longer isolated from the Internet by a private IP.
Your router has a firewall, external computers can't just send packets to the internal addresses. NAT is not a firewall.