Ipv6

jayme1

Witchfinder_General wrote: »

IPv6: Would allow every grain of sand in the Sahara desert to have its own IP address, with a few million addressees spare.

if all the IPv4 addresses were a golf ball, then (at the same density) all the IPv6 addresses would take up a space the size of The Sun

KiwiCrazy

This really WONT be an issue for years and years.

IPv6 wont be the main addressing system for a LONG time, so dont worry.

free4440273

KiwiCrazy wrote: »

This really WONT be an issue for years and years.

IPv6 wont be the main addressing system for a LONG time, so dont worry.

welcome to the forum kiwi :wave:

JJ_Egan

This really WONT be an issue for years and years.

IPv6 wont be the main addressing system for a LONG time, so dont worry.

May not be upon us next week and IPv4 will run hand in hand but the high end deployment of IPv6 has already started .

It may speed up somewhat if UK government are prepared to invest or rebate for changes .Business is already advised to prepare for the switch Google has already made the switch .

Years and Years before full switch over with IPv4 totally redundant = probably 5-10 years but no real date on that .
Actual IPv6 itself is happening right now but will not affect home users and routers yet .

jje

patman99

As IPv6 was agreed-on in 2002, most consumer-end kit has been built with v6 compatabilty in mind since 2006.
My Linksys dates from 2008 and can be switched between the two.

Of course the biggest problem is that router/modems using IPv6 do not have the ability to do NAT, this means that each computer on your network will show it's IPAddress to the world instead of hiding behind a common IPA. This will make it easier to hack individual network-connected devices. We covered this in the networking module of a Degree course I started last year.