IPv6 Readiness Report

MythoBeast writes "In the latest episode of the Intellectual Icebergs podcast, Brett Thorson of Ravenwing provides a very good review of how ready our industry is for IPv6. He also provides a pretty good implementation guide for those who want to set up IPv6 at home."

By the time IPv6 is ready

[Anonymous Coward]

We'll need IPv8.

A podcast guide?

[Qzukk]

Personally, I'd rather have a written guide of some form to refer to when I implement IPv6, though I'm going to listen to this just to see how it turns out. It'll probably be just like class where I scribble furiously to write down everything the professor says.

IPv6 rocks for the home

[Anonymous Coward]

With a traditional IPv4 network, I was running out of IP addresses, but now I can give each sofa cushion its own address.

Anyone watch 24?

[someonewhois]

IPv6 isn't going to work because of television. Chloe: "Jack, give me the IP Address of the workstation and I'll send you a decrypter." Jack: "Okay one sec........... Alright, got it! F as in food, E as in earth, D as in death, C as in card, colon, B as in bad, A as in apple, six, eight, colon, three, six, four, four, colon, one, two, zero, seven, colon, A as in apple..." FBI Agent breaks in: What's this? Jack? You're supposed to be dead! [shoots Jack] [Season Ends] Man oh man oh man. That's gotta be the reason why IPv6 isn't implemented yet. (Seriously, tech support nightmares)

Re:Anyone watch 24?

[Kagura]

Trying the old "i 'accidentally' made a mistake in my original post let me fix it and get double the karma" trick, eh? Yeah, we're on to you. :)

this just in:

[Gothmolly]

$PERSON makes $TRENDY style comment about $TECHNOLOGY. $EDITORS don't edit, they greenlight based on $TRENDY. Oh wait, we're talking about whether IPv6 is redundant, necessary, or useful? Thats actually secondary to the point of the accepted submission.

Re:By the time IPv6 is ready

[Anonymous Coward]

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Why IPV6 will be accepted

[techno-vampire]

IPV6 will finally get accepted when it's discovered that it's the only way to play a network game of Duke Nukem Forever.

Re:IPv6 isnt really wanted

[Omnifarious]

Yep, idiot. Checked your posting history. Definitely idiot.

I would much rather see an end-to-end connectivity world + routers sold to consumers being default configured to have a no-ingress firewall. Killing end-to-end connectivity for the purposes of security is like pre-emptively chopping off the hands of children so they don't steal.