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[PLUG] DCANet IPV6 and USENET (was Re: 6bone - was PPPoE (was RE: [PLUG] DSL, Bell Atlantic, and Me))
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Hi Bill,
We cannot use IPv6 addresses for customer assignment until
all of our upstream providers will route them. Also, very
few devices -- at the customer premise or here in our network
center -- can easily handle IPv6 addressing.
We are certainly looking forward to the day when there is
some relief from the pressure to conserve IPv4 addresses.
On the brighter side, DCANet dialup and DSL customers will
notice our USENET news service is much improved! A new
dual 733 Mhz XEON system with a 270GB RAID array is allowing
us to serve up news faster and store it longer.
-Andrew White
DCANet
> However... Yes, there is some pressure to conserve IP addresses.
>
> SOOOOOO.... Ok Andrew, when are you (dcaNet) going to route IPv6 - native?
> I believe that Sprint (claims to) does it now. It would give DCAnet a nice
> "value added" when compared to other ISPs. (You can start issuing IPv6
> addresses any time you like.)
>
> I'm already tunneling IPV6 over V4 twixt my Alpha at home and the one in
> the office. If I can find time to spit, I'll get around to linking out to
> the 6bone one of these days.
>
> Cisco's IOS relase due out any day now, will support it directly, without
> patches. Tru64 Unix is dual Stacked as is the latest version of
> Solaris. AIX has it as a separately priced product.
>
> I don't know which versions of Linux have a dual stack.
>
> Tunneling IPv6 through IPv4 is pretty trivial and allows one to play on the
> 6bone without the benefit of all of the native IPv6 features. But it's a
> good start.
>
> There is very strong industry sentiment that native IPv6 will be WIDELY
> deployed and in use within 18 months! ... very heavy pressure from both
> the wireless-hand held "thingie" folks as well as the US government (both
> the Navy and the Army have been turned down by IANNA for recent address
> requests), and an assortment of 3rd world countries like China and India.
>
>
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