In my opinion, the only real limiting factor holding back IPv6 is the consumer grade OSes that M$ and Apple put out. Both have serious issues that their simplistic interfaces can't fix without work-arounds. Linux is usually a more complicated interface on it's own, so while it has issues, they're more a matter of user knowledge than true lack of feature.
Most hardware out there seems IPv6 compliant these days, and it's really going to become a necessity soon for major systems to start adopting the protocol, I'm wondering why it's been so slow a process.
Mixed bag o' troubleferenMay 19 2010, 00:03:29 UTC
It's a many-splendored ball of suck. I do not claim to be an expert like Randy Bush but my own experiences at home and in the professional field, paired with near-obsessive reading of NANOG, has given me some insights.
There is a chicken&egg sort of problem going on -- providers won't take IPv6 seriously, nor deploy it seriously, until there's demand. There's no demand for it because it hasn't been deployed. Right now there is no "killer app" that is driving IPv6 adoption. Mostly it is nerds & the occasional government mandate.
Consumer support -- most home CPE doesn't support IPv6. What I use for firewalls and routing as well as for switching at home does, but it's not "consumer-grade" as it was aimed more at the small branch-office market. My actual DSL "modem," something very consumer-grade that was provided by my ISP, doesn't know thing one about IPv6 (Some consumer devices, like various WAPs from Linksys and Buffalo and friends, can have a third-party firmware hacked into them that supports IPv6. This is not to be
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Most hardware out there seems IPv6 compliant these days, and it's really going to become a necessity soon for major systems to start adopting the protocol, I'm wondering why it's been so slow a process.
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