James Knott wrote:
Per Jessen wrote:
Rather than hijacking Robert Days thread, I thought I'd start a separate one on the practicalities of IPv6:
Co-existence: if someone were to go IPv6-only, how is access for IPv4-only clients achieved? Ie. if I move to an IPv6-only network, how do IPv4-only clients deal with it? Do I need to do anything?
Dual-stack on ADSL - is it possible to have IPv4 and IPv6 on the same ADSL line? (ignoring whether or not a supplier would support it).
Hardware - does anyone want to recommend an ADSL router with IPv6 support? We've been using Zyxel for the last five years, and I've been looking at Zyxels 662, but I've grown a little wary of Zyxel (support in particular). A new router would require solid IPv6 support plus SNMP and syslog ditto.
/Per
I don't recall the details and it's been quite a while since I read about it, but there is an IPv6 address range that's reserved for mapping directly to IPv4 addresses.
Isn't that the other way around - for mapping IPv4 (in)to IPv6 ?
ADSL in these parts is provided by running PPPoE, that is Peer to Peer Protocol over Ethernet. PPP & Ethernet can both handle whatever packets you throw at them, as they're level 2 protocols, so ADSL should have no problem, in theory, with handling IPv6. Of course there's always the software within the ADSL modem and DSLAM to worry about, as well as any routers beyond them.
Yeah, I was asking/worried about the entire path, not just the PPPoE level. The issue is that anyone migrating to IPv6 would want to have a period of time with 4/6 coexistence, and if that could be achieved without having to have a dual ADSL setup, so much the better.
As I mentioned earlier, tunneling can be used to bypass any IPv4 link.
Yes, but in in a complete migration to IPv6, that's only a small step on the way, and the tunnels (as currently provided) are not intended for high volume (to my knowledge anyway). /Per -- Per Jessen, Zürich (4.9°C) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org