On Thursday, June 09, 2011 03:32:35 PM Stuart Barkley wrote: > Yesterday was IPv6 day. > > Does IPv6 have any major place in clusters? Has anyone ever tried an > IPv6 only cluster?
Lots and lots of cluster-related software currently requires IPv4 so I suspect that this would be a challenge. One thing IPv4 makes hard (for most people) today that IPv6 will fix is to "afford" assigning global addresses to all nodes in a cluster (even though most people can live without that...). /Peter > My thought is that IPv4 is fine for internal cluster networks using > rfc1918 networks. I expect the multihomed login/management nodes will > eventually need IPv6 on the outside interfaces. > > Other thoughts? > > Stuart Barkley
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