------------------------------------------------------------------------ A poll associated with this post was created, to vote and see the results, please visit http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=53800 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Question: Should IPv6 be supported? - Yes - No - I Don't Really Care - What Is IPv6 Anyway? ------------------------------------------------------------------------
Hi, andyg;349903 Wrote: > IPv6 is not going to happen in firmware. You will never run out of IPv4 > addresses on your LAN. Try 10.x.x.x. Great, but that's not the issue. The IANA has today given out the last ipv4 addresses to the RIRs. The central ipv4 stack is now completely empty. By the summer, the APNIC (the RIR for the Asia-Pacific area) will run out too and a couple months later (before the end of this year!!!), we will see the first ISPS -and therefor users- who do not have a public IPv4 address anymore. Europe and North-America are to follow in early 2012. What does this mean? Radio-stations in the Asia-Pacific area will have to pay extra to get assurance to get a public ipv4 address; not for ipv6 addresses. If I want to listen to a station/stream located on a private LAN of somebody in the Asia/pacific area, it will not be possible anymore to access that station in ipv4, only in ipv6. Ipv6 is about much more then just ip-address size. Just two examples: - I want to be able to access my squeezebox at home and control it from anywhere on the internet, and ipv6 allows me to do this. ipv4 with NAT does not. - Ipv6 allows broadcasting in peer-to-peer configuration allowing for cheaper radio-stations (like personal radio-stations). Ipv4 does not allow this. Ipv6 is a key component of "the internet of things", just like "intelligent devices" (like the squeezebox). Ipv6 is here. You are liberated from ipv4 NAT, just think what new possiblities this allows you. Cheerio! Kr. Bonne. -- krbonne ------------------------------------------------------------------------ krbonne's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=36003 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=53800 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
