Are your networks ready for the cutover to IPv6?

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June 8 is World IPv6 Day, when Google, Akamai, Facebook, and Limelight test their IPv6 stacks. Find out now if your home and corporate networks are ready

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You probably already knew that the Internet is running out of 32-bit IP addresses. You may not have known that 98 percent of the available 4,294,967,296 addresses are already allocated. According to the automatically generated Potaroo IPv4 Address Report -- you can even download a Windows gadget to perform the countdown in real time -- we'll run out of unallocated address pools on Feb. 19, 2011, or about five weeks from now. That doesn't mean the Internet will come crashing down, but it does make life much harder for those who have to assign IP addresses.

The world has to move to IPv6, with its 128-bit addresses. But that's easier said than done.

Generally, it isn't a question of getting clients to run IPv6. The various Windows, Mac OS, and Linux OSes all have IPv6 support. <snip>

While the world makes the transition from IPv4 to IPv6 -- a process that will take many years -- websites will need to run "dual stacks" to allow access via either the IPv4 or IPv6 protocols. That's the source of most of the problems: If your network supports both IPv4 and IPv6, but the IPv6 access isn't working right, and you go to a site with dual stacks, your system may hang for more than a minute trying to get into the IPv6 part of the site.

ISOC, the international Internet society, just announced World IPv6 Day -- the largest IPv6 testing experiment to date -- which will run for 24 hours on June 8. On that date Google (and YouTube), Facebook, and Yahoo will all turn on their IPv6 stacks, as will the major behind-the-scenes delivery networks Akamai and Limelight Networks.
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If you want to test your connection right now, hop over to the Test-IPv6 site and see if you have IPv4 and IPv6 running properly. If your corporate network isn't set up to browse http://test-ipv6.com">IPv6 sites just yet, not to worry. That will come with time. The forced cutover to IPv6 is many, many years away. For now, you primarily want to know if your connection will fall over with a site that has both IPv4 and IPv6 stacks running. Test-ipv6 will tell you.
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http://www.infoworld.com/t/network-testing/are-your-networks-ready-the-cutover-ipv6-485

http://test-ipv6.com

[Motown_Johnny]

1. why am I having a Y2K flashback?

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3. Similar but different

The Y2K problem was a flaw in the way computers were programmed. IPv4 will run for as long as it runs. The problem is that the number of public addresses available for purchase will run out. People will have to be more creative about how they use them. A lot of that is already taking place. Companies with thousands of computers only need a few addresses to get on the internet. There are companies that are hogging old addresses. That likely needs to be addressed as well.

[snooper2]

4. address space is regulated

You can't just go out and say I need another huge block, it has to be justified. But it is running out. Carriers are wary of this and use blocks efficiently. Also, if you leave a large block unused for a long period of time it can/will be reclaimed.

We are already offering IPv6 for our business customers by running dual stack hosts. Still running IPv4 in the Core, that evolution will take at least another 3 years. Japan is actually at the forefront, all of their government agencies for the most part are on IPv6.


I can't wait for the conspiracy theories around IPv6,

URI with ENUM will be even better-
They done tracking me with a single number Margrett :rofl:

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5. My understanding is there are issues around websites identifying clients

Meaning that when you visit a website with a "normal" IPv4 address, the website can categorize and handle you. But if you come through with IPv6 to a IPv4 website that doesn't recognize IPv6, it will get confused and not react well.

[jeff47]

7. The web site thinks everyone coming from that IPv6->IPv4 is the same computer

That's the nature of gateways.

[SoCalDem]

6. & they are watching you through the camera thingie

:)

[SidDithers]

2. Interesting. Thanks for posting...

:thumbsup:

Sid

[conspirator]

8. That's good news! For us IT unemployed folks. Lots of applications still

running on IPv4 and they need to be rewritten hehe