On Sun, 2009-10-18 at 14:14 +0200, Per Jessen wrote:
Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
It is easier to deploy it in a gradual strategic way than to scramble when you suddenly have to support it.
+1.
did you really get to a point where IPv4 simply couldn't do the job anymore?
There is just no reason not to begin phasing out IPv4.
What if your internal/local/RFC1918 network is all IPv4 and works very well? Is there a reason to start phasing that out? I'm not so sure, it's certainly not easy coming up with a business case. In particular if you've still got IPv4-only applications (mysql, asterisk as somebody already mentioned).
If your local network works Ok with IPv4, and are not expecting higher costs for your current addres, and not expecting to reach url's that might be on IPv6 only addresses, there's no need to worry...
Wrt to the external network, it would be highly desirable to begin a slow transition to IPv6, but my main worry here is that my upstream provider does not have the skills required to support me/my company. There are not very many IPv6 deployments on xDSL yet.
It's very unlikely that you're served by an dsl provider willing to offer IPv6, true. Hence you can turn to an external provider, like http://www.tunnelbroker.net/ their tunnels are free, as in "free beer" If you ever change from access-provider to another, you can take your tunnel, and your /64 address space with you. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org