Jon Carnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Full scale implementations of IPv6 are expected to to blossom in 2005. > It will start in places like China (already working on several large > scale roll-outs of internet access via IPv6), and it will move around > the world.
I'm not convinced. China has their national firewall. They can use whatever addresses behind that thing that they want, and still speak ipv4 to the world. > Currently most of us connect to the internet using IPv4, which has a > built-in limitation on the number of IP addresses available: ~ 4.3 > billion, that's not a lot when you consider that there are in excess of > 6 billion computing devices in the world today. So? There are not ~ 4.3 billion 'servers'. Never will be. From my workstation, I don't need to have a direct conversation with your workstation. > IPv6 offers a virtually infinite number of Internet addresses: ~ > 340000000000000000000000000000000000000 usable ip addresses. It also > offers better security, easier multicasting, and simplified routing > (organizations no longer need to use NAT). Why -not- use NAT? NAT is a good thing. See above. Also, NAT hides a lot of information. This is a good thing. > If this is going to take the world by storm over the next year or three, > we should definitely be in the know about it. Bah. Three years for a start, maybe. I'm having a hard time seeing the need for ipv6 anytime soon. Mike -- "If life hands you lemons, YOU BLOW THOSE LEMONS TO BITS WITH YOUR LASER CANNONS!" -- Brak GNUPG Key fingerprint = ACD2 2F2F C151 FB35 B3AF C821 89C4 DF9A 5DDD 95D1 GNUPG Key = http://www.enoch.org/mike/mike.pubkey.asc
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