IPv4 is almost gone (in Europe anyway)
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Re: IPv4 is almost gone (in Europe anyway)
#2Yep and nothing will be done by ISPs until they are all completely gone (and maybe not even then, scarcity is good for business).
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#3This seems to have been rumbling on for some time now - at least for the past five years or so.
My OS supports IPv6, my home router supports IPv6, but at no point have any of the home ISPs I've used (three in the past five years - BT Internet, Be and Origin Broadband) made any mention of any sort of IPv6 support.
I'm not au fait with the workings of such huge operations, so is there any reason for ISP adoption of IPv6 to be so sluggish? It's not like it's been an overnight thing. I'm aware it's unlikely to be a simple case of flipping a switch, or installing a new software package - but we do appear to be approaching an IP crunch.
Are there any consumer ISPs that do offer customers a block of IPv6 addresses for use, rather than (or as well as) a single IPv4 address?
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#4And in Asia: APNIC initiated last block measures in April last year.
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Re: IPv4 is almost gone (in Europe anyway)
#6This seems to have been rumbling on for some time now - at least for the past five years or so. My OS supports IPv6, my home router supports IPv6, but at no point have any of the home ISPs I've used (three in the past five years - BT Internet, Be and Origin Broadband) made any mention of any sort of IPv6 support. I'm not au fait with the workings of such huge operations, so is there any reason for ISP adoption of IPv…
I'm in the opposite situation.
My ISP and wifi router support IPv6; but my modem does not. And without this modem failing, I probably won't shell out $150 for a new one.
Re: IPv4 is almost gone (in Europe anyway)
#7This seems to have been rumbling on for some time now - at least for the past five years or so. My OS supports IPv6, my home router supports IPv6, but at no point have any of the home ISPs I've used (three in the past five years - BT Internet, Be and Origin Broadband) made any mention of any sort of IPv6 support. I'm not au fait with the workings of such huge operations, so is there any reason for ISP adoption of IPv…
According to [1] there are a few - no big names, though. As [2] says, running IPv6 is fairly boring; you get access to the same web as everyone else.
[1] http://www.sixxs.net/faq/connectivity/?faq=native&countr... [2] http://bens.me.uk/2011/adventures-in-ipv6
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At least for them...
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#9I'm afraid of the possibility that instead of adopting IPv6, internet providers will just switch to ISP-wide NAT, making the internet even more asymmetric than it already is.
Re: IPv4 is almost gone (in Europe anyway)
#10This seems to have been rumbling on for some time now - at least for the past five years or so. My OS supports IPv6, my home router supports IPv6, but at no point have any of the home ISPs I've used (three in the past five years - BT Internet, Be and Origin Broadband) made any mention of any sort of IPv6 support. I'm not au fait with the workings of such huge operations, so is there any reason for ISP adoption of IPv…
Eircom (an Irish ISP) are trialing IPv6 currently, and the routers they have been shipping for the last year or so support it.
Other than that, our co-location provider Blacknight offer IPv6 to their customers.. but that's not exactly residential!