On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 04:22:00PM -0600, RB wrote: > This question comes back up every few months, and every time I wonder: > what is the justification case for IPv6? Aside from those home
We're running out of addresses, and we better start deploying two years ago. Unless you want to start living with NAT at ISP level, which would suck. > hackers that are desperate for a full 128 bits of addressing to route > the twelve devices on their network (never mind my public wifi network > that eats an entire /17 with all its churn), where are the potential > users? Who has put off rolling out pfSense or a similar platform Everybody. Mobile device users for starters. > because it didn't implement IPv6? What about the fact that for the You're talking about the past. There has been no address scarcity in the past. > huge majority of users, the magical IPv6 land of ponies and sugar > cakes will end at their border unless they tunnel it out to some Why can't I terminate a 6to4 tunnel in pfSense? So I can offer my customers native IPv6 connectivity, which my hoster doesn't, yet? > 3rd-party provider? Yes, some ISPs are starting to offer v6 > connectivity, but those are few and far between. I have a small business with a /24. In order for me to make money I will soon have to order another /24. And then another. > I'm not against IPv6, I just disagree with the periodic > Slashdot-induced handwaving 'emergency'. We've been "on the cusp" of Slashdot-induced, huh. > "an addressing crisis" for years, and the fact that someone has > slapped a ruler on the current allocation trend and come up with a > number of days under 1000 doesn't really cause me concern. Who can > present a reasonable case for adoption before the current 2-3 year > timeline? Do you realize how long hardware deployment takes? Right now we're driving at a nearby brick wall with a floored pedal. It's going to hurt, a lot. -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org";>leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
