IPv6 support on Virgin media
Does anyone know whether (and if so when) Virgin plan to implement IPv6 on its network?
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Which is covered by doing NAT anyway.
No, it's not. NAT is done as a separate step after routing (for outgoing packets; for incoming ones the steps happen in reverse.)
Dagger and Legacy,
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Thanks, Lisa.
I just wonder what's going to happen to Virgin Media broadband users when a web site appears on the Internet which has _no_ IPv4 address, because there simply is no IPv4 address available to give to the creators of that web site.
It is at that point that we will all need our own IPv6 address.
It seems to me that Virgin have either chosen not to address (sorry about the pun) that future requirement, or don't know how to address it.
I know it's some way off yet, but it will happen.
CSW
You're unlikely to come across a website without IP v4 support in the medium term, as there are plenty of IP addresses to host many, many times the current number of websites and it's realtively easy for websites to share IPs (some SSL sites excepted while we need to worry about visitors using IE on XP).
The problem is the millions of people who want to connect to the internet, and each needs an IP to do so. Perhaps a few if they've got smart phones, tablets etc that they want to connect. Virgin Media have been allocated several million IPs, but they've got millions of customers and they can't easily get more IPs as their customer base grows. There will come a point when they either need to turn away potential customers, or make their customers share IP addresses by putting another layer of NAT in.
That's fine for most services, but sometimes you need to open a particular port on your router, and you won't be able to do that on a shared IP. In this scenario you could either pay extra for your own IP, or use IP v6.
