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Well it is official now, no more IPv4 address, with the internet growing, we don't want to be left behind. Some of the big sites will be testing thier pages in IPv6, including google, facebook and yahoo.
If we want to keep up, the router firmware will need to be updated to support IPv6.
Any reply virgin?
Whilst we already have enough IPv4 address space for our current network needs, as part of ongoing network upgrades, we have been looking at making our network ready for IPv6 connectivity. There are many factors which need to be worked through to ensure a seamless experience for our customers but we anticipate we will progress with initial stages of IPv6 deployment at some point during 2012.
Thanks
- beanie15 years agoDialled in
Will we all be ok on World IPv6 day June 8th, 2011?
The only reason I ask is I cant load these sites:
Thanks,
David- Anonymous15 years agoipv6 day will not be ipv6 only its a dual stack test.
i can access them :P get a tunnel from he.net- copsewood14 years agoJoining in
My he.net ip6 over ip4 tunnel works very well through my cable modem router. he.net can also allocate you a /64 in addition to the tunnel endpoint address. You can use the he.net DNS service to allocate forward and reverse DNS names to your ip6 addresses, and use the /64 to provide routes within your home network to all the other devices and computers. So I've been able to access ipv6 only services outside my network this way and also provide ipv6 servers globally visible over ipv6 running inside my home network.
- fellfromatree15 years agoSettling in
beanie wrote:Will we all be ok on World IPv6 day June 8th, 2011?
The only reason I ask is I cant load these sites:
Thanks,
DavidHey David,
You should be fine. The reason you can't access those sites, is that you need to have a v6 address before you can view a v6 website. The big players are running a dual-stack network, which basically means that they run both v4 and v6 websites at the same time. Your browser is then directed to the correct version of the site.
I think that the idea behind IPv6 day, is that many sites are switching their v6 service on for the first time, or running a full v6 service for the first time. It doesn't mean that the v4 site will disappear completely.
HTH,
Paul
- VMCopperUser15 years agoWise owl
It's likely that ALL sites out there today will still be reachable in 10+ years using IPv4..
Virgin Media will have more than enough ipv4 Addys to give out to customers until they go bankrupt and nationalized...
The issue (as is, and as will be, that VM will not talk about) is new startups that are ipv6 Only.. Lets not forget that startups such as Myspace, Youtube, and LOTS of broadcasting sites are fairly new.
The ISP doesnt care right now because customers aren't impacted. Sadly (with VM) this means that they will probably migrate when half the userbase is ticked off because they cant reach some new fangled site that's in Alexa's top 10..
Then they'll start doing catch-up and tell us how hard they are working for us ;P...
The equipment VM has listed before shows that their headend should be ipv6 compliant, most of the modems and routers they provide are compliant (with patches), so if VM says they are not ready, then it means that their core fibre network must not be ready :/...
Spooky thought that.
- James_G15 years agoForum Team (Retired)
Hi beanie,
Could you please let us know if the information provided by fellfromatree helped with your query?
- VMCopperUser15 years agoWise owl
Mark_Wilkin wrote:Whilst we already have enough IPv4 address space for our current network needs, as part of ongoing network upgrades, we have been looking at making our network ready for IPv6 connectivity. There are many factors which need to be worked through to ensure a seamless experience for our customers but we anticipate we will progress with initial stages of IPv6 deployment at some point during 2012.
Thanks
Sadly this is the same line we have been spun for years. No one with technical experience must be allowed to look at IPv6. They only look at it in terms of IP Allocation to Users, and NEVER look at IPv6 CONNECTIVITY to the internet. New sites started up later this year may not have an IPv4 address block so we (the users) will in essence be blocked from these new services.
Perhaps when Mr Neal said that Neutrality was "B O L L O C K S" he was looking forward to where IPv6 will be used to send out more webtv and thought that would be a great thing to delay?...
I know that BBC Went to VM to try multicast trials and VM said they didnt wish to give users that service!
IPv6 CONNECTIVITY needs to be put in place, at least 4to6 tunnels in all of the major routing points.
Even google (who VM has given most of their services to) has made the switch to IPv6. Initial stages should have started 5 years ago when we were asking for it... Not in 2012 when some websites will only be rechable via IPv6.
- Anonymous15 years agostill think facebook should go ipv6 only. then all isp will rush to add support and the first isp to get ipv6 working will get every uk user :)
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