Posts by ZeroSum

ISPs should not be handing over customer details for anything less than a court order. Change happens, people raising concerns like that are just blockers. Similar issues would arise with multiple layers of NAT.

They're not a real networks person if they're afraid of IPv6. They're probably a systems person that occasionally has to do a bit of networking.

Re: Does anyone trust Ofcom to handling any IP addressing?

> Well, we could wait for the other countries to do the "years of developing" and then install a more polished solution at a cheaper price...

The IPv4 Internet didn't just arrive perfectly formed. Delaying IPv6 deployment marks out the UK as a technology laggard.

Re: Does anyone actually use IPv6

ISP residential Internet access, 3GPP mobile and mass market services like YouTube and Netflix is where all the IPv6 deployment effort should be concentrated.

When there's a good base of people with more experience of IPv6 it can start going into enterprise. Enterprise is part of the tail.

Even the softer approach of Ofcom asking the ISPs for updates every 3 months might be enough.

Re: Port-forwarding behind a CGNAT doesn't work

ISPs like Liberty Global are forcing subscribers behind CGNATs that don't allow them to set-up port forwarding. Someone else might be using port 8080...

Re: Does anyone trust Ofcom to handling any IP addressing?

The early deployments of IPv6 in other countries are very cautious ones. There will be many years of developing it, particularly when it achieves critical mass and backwards compatibility with the legacy Internet reached through IPv4 BAN (Big Ass NAT) decline in importance.

There's nothing to gain by delaying.

Re: The problem is ISPs

Keep asking them for it. They've said they'll do it and having customers demanding something makes getting it worked on a lot easier.

Re: 20 .au IPv6 domains

The lumpen mass of ISPs will start herding as they see more clueful ISPs doing it. The ones doing it now are shaking out the bugs in BNGs, access nodes and CPE. It will be much easier for ISPs to enable it over the next few years.

Re: BT?

Lack of effort would be the their problem.

The boxes plugged into the cables and fibre are also shared

Separate infrastructure is the exception.

Re: Networking's answer to Windows Vista

All that fd::/8 sh1t can be ignored by normal users. The only important addresses are the globally routable ones.

Re: To be perfectly frank...

DHCPv6 can be used on the LAN side of the modem, for example if you don't want your devices getting the long addresses using the last 64 bits that SLAAC generates.

Re: Bridging IPv4 to IPv6

Facebook is available over IPv6. When more ISPs start providing it to their customers a lot of existing traffic will use v6 instead of v4.

Re: Follow the Money (business as usual)

If they want to spy they use DPI not NAT.

Re: Hex codes are a good thing

There's no need to use an address that long when doing it manually. The last half of it can be a low number.

e.g.

2001:db8:123:456::7

192.168.1.7

Not much worse than a RFC1918 address to input.

Re: Running out of addresses might sometimes be a good thing...

Haven't heard of any ISP that provides IPv6 not using DHCPv6-PD (prefix delegation).

Re: US leadership in space

They will have again soon.