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I still can't get away from this sensation that no matter how good IPv6 is, the ship has sailed. The inferior but indisputably cheaper technology won out over the technically superior one. VHS vs Betamax. Ethernet over Token Ring.
At Netflix, we found in quite a few networks IPv6 had much better QoE than IPv4. In a limited number of cases, IPv6 was very broken. It was almost always equal or better.
Did you have a sense of whether QoE diverged due to differences in the networking equipment or differences in the protocol itself?
I still can't get away from this sensation that no matter how good IPv6 is, the ship has sailed. The inferior but indisputably cheaper technology won out over the technically superior one. VHS vs Betamax. Ethernet over Token Ring.
Once the address space is exhausted, the only choices are: IPv6 or no new devices. Since the latter isn't an option, IPv6 is inevitable.
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Yet, while people keep saying that, ipv6 adoption only goes up every month. I'm having a hard time accepting "the ship has sailed" while my home outbound connections use ipv6 for more and more endpoints.
All the cloud provider VPCs seem inextriciably linked to IP4 config, which seems to work great. Maybe the low level infrastructure is IP6, but we dont operate at that level.
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You're talking about displacing an incumbent, not competing technologies. IPv6 will win, once people stop sitting on their hands. Companies now are being effectively forced to adopt it due to exhaustion of the range.. CGNAT is bigger than ever and is causing real issues so most phones are dual homed with IPv6 behind a v4 CGNAT. Like climate change, its a "future problem" until its practically staring you in the face,…
All cheap stuff will support IPv6 due to China mandating full IPv6 support. I suspect China will eventually drag the kicking and screaming west to IPv6-land.
Anyone running v6 only and bridging to v4 on the edge?
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A poor link - a book written by Huwaei doesn't scream "This is a widely used standard" Wikipedia would be a far better link, as it has links to RFCs, Cisco, Juniper Arista etc pages on it, and generally lets normal people who likely haven't heard of it read about it
Sheesh, it take real guts to dismiss a book written by engineers who themselves directly involved in coming up with open industry networking standards, and currently working with arguably the biggest networking and communication company in the world. This take the idiom of "judge a book by its cover" to a whole new level.
I still can't get away from this sensation that no matter how good IPv6 is, the ship has sailed. The inferior but indisputably cheaper technology won out over the technically superior one. VHS vs Betamax. Ethernet over Token Ring.
Yet, while people keep saying that, ipv6 adoption only goes up every month. I'm having a hard time accepting "the ship has sailed" while my home outbound connections use ipv6 for more and more endpoints.
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Facebook, Deutche Telecom (Terastream), and other huge players I can't mention because NDA.
Any tips on how they're doing DNS64/NAT64? Last I looked, TAYGA was a way to do it with a linux edge router. Do folks use Google's DNS64 resolver?
There's a lot more info on how its done if you search 464XLAT on the web.
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Yes sure MPLS works as combustion engines work as long we can remember, but it's not stopping EV as a new contender as the near future vehicle platform whether we like it or not. Now we have hybrid MPLS or SR-MPLS as a stopgap measure similar to what we have now with PHEV, etc. Personally I think the networking industry has already learned their mistakes from the ATM days and hopefully SRv6 will take off for better a…
I don't understand what this means. This was not a defence of MPLS, but rather an observation that says that the fundamental domains and business logic around externally-selected TE paths do not change because we change what header instructs the network to steer packets. It's still not going to make sense to have external users try and use the "premium" paths in the network without some recompense to keep scaling the…