IPv6?

[Mike_Rural]

With the limit of IPv4 addresses fast being approached, does Virgin Media have plans to enable IPv6 on National Broadband? 

When will this happen and will existing modems need upgrading/changing? 

I have seen stores published that several providers have already enabled IPv6 but noted that Virgin Media was not amongst them. 

If you do have such plans, we need plenty of notice so that we can ensure our equipment is capable of using IPv6 as well as IPv4 as currently. 

[swt4ajp]

hi,

in future please use the search feature as this has already been in discussion previously

http://community.virginmedia.com/t5/Fibre-optic-broadband-cable/IPv6-support-on-Virgin-media/td-p/35...

hope this helps

[Mike_Rural]

But none of that thread answers the question asked!  Plus most of it is up to 2 years old!  So when are you planning to offer IPv6, as you will have to in the end as it's not just down to Virgin's use of IPs.  Internationally there is a growing use of IPv6 and we will all be required to have such access sometime in the near future. When that does happen, will we need new hardware modems/routers/etc?

[swt4ajp]

afaik the superhub is ipv6 ready just needs to be enabled with a firmware update to reveil the options for ipv6 config

and alot of the sites that broadcast on ipv6 are still going to use the legacy ipv4 network until majority of users are migrated to ipv6

[Joanne_J]

 Hello Mike_Rural

At the moment there is no plans for Virgin Media to use IPv6, if we do plan on using it in the future we will notify our customers on the changes.

Regards

[chrissw]

I posted this on "that other thread" but I'm going to put it here as well, for the sake of completeness.

There will be a time, yes, in the future, but it will definitely happen, when a web site comes onto the Internet, and it has _no_ IPv4 address, because there simply is no available address to give it, and all it has is an IPv6 address.

At that point, we will all need our own IPv6 address in order to reach that web site.

What plan do Virgin have to address that situation? Do you have a plan at all? I presume, after all, that you do understand the nature of the future problem.

In fact such web sites already exist, but AFAIK only in parallel with IPv4 versions of themselves: ipv6.google.com, www.v6.facebook.com have only IPv6 addresses. There may be others.

CSW

[Mike_Rural]

I don't feel you have properly understood the question.  It's not whether you plan to 'use' IPv6' yourselves but what you plan to do to allow and enable us, your customers, to access IPv6 websites etc as and when they are available and have no IPv4 accessibility?

You may not want to use it yourselves, but I understand there are already sites that only have IPv6 access that we IPv4 users cannot view as yet.  With the limit of IPv4 addresses getting closer we will all need to be able to access IPv6 addresses sooner rather than later.  It is therefore a matter of enabling IPv6 access, whatever that involves, alongside IPv4 access. 

[swt4ajp]

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chrissw wrote:

I posted this on "that other thread" but I'm going to put it here as well, for the sake of completeness.

There will be a time, yes, in the future, but it will definitely happen, when a web site comes onto the Internet, and it has _no_ IPv4 address, because there simply is no available address to give it, and all it has is an IPv6 address.

At that point, we will all need our own IPv6 address in order to reach that web site.

What plan do Virgin have to address that situation? Do you have a plan at all? I presume, after all, that you do understand the nature of the future problem.

In fact such web sites already exist, but AFAIK only in parallel with IPv4 versions of themselves: ipv6.google.com, www.v6.facebook.com have only IPv6 addresses. There may be others.

CSW

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but if you think about it then there is shared hosting which still majority of them still run ipv4 so you can have masive datacenters with millions of sites on them all running ipv4

i could see majority of isps getting stick if facebook and google and microsoft suddenly change from ipv4 to 6 and shutdown the ipv4 addresses lol

[Mike_Rural]

Still we are waiting for VM to tell us when they plan to enable use of IPv6.  It's not that we want them to use it themselves, but we will shortly need access to other web services that will not be able to use an IPv4 address as they will run out of those soon. 

All I'm asking is when will it become universally available via VM and what equipment considerations/implications are there with the enablement?

Simple straight answer of 'when' will help.

[Aaron_G]

Hi All

The simple answer is YES!  The pilot of Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) WORLD IPv6 DAY took place on June 8th 2011.  

On this day, content providers and website operators enabled both IPv4 and IPv6 for their online content for a 24 hour period. 

Virgin Media has not configured IPv6 for customer use yet. This will happen at some point during 2012.

Regards

Aaron