But as the others have said, the main issue is support in existing kit. Only a fraction of my devices support IPv6. It's good for some things and not doing something just because no-one else is will never push the progression on. The more demand we create for IPv6, the more likely ISPs are to take it up.
On 23 August 2012 15:43, Kristian Kielhofner <kris@kriskinc.com> wrote:
Sorry, I just woke up: "there end of the tunnel" = "their end of the tunnel".
On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 10:42 AM, Kristian Kielhofner <kris@kriskinc.com> wrote:
> Assuming you're in the US (or most other parts of the world besides
> Asia); it won't work. Here's why:
>
> Almost no last mile providers will deliver native IPv6 (currently).
> Your customers would have to use a tunneling service like HE to even
> get to you. First there are hassles setting up the tunnel in the
> first place, then there are issues with latency, packet loss, jitter,
> etc using a tunnel service that has to haul all of your IPv6 in IPv4
> traffic back to their gateway in a central location. VoIP is just
> about the worst service you could use via an IPv6 tunnel.
>
> You could try to offer your own IPv6 tunneling service but there's
> still the issue of customers setting up there end of the tunnel.
> Besides, encapsulation sucks.
>
> The IPv4 global routing table has at least 424,000 networks:
>
> http://bgp.potaroo.net/index-bgp.html
>
> The IPv6 global routing table has 10,215 networks:
>
> http://bgp.potaroo.net/v6/as2.0/
>
> Granted IPv6 networks tend to be better organized and more "compact"
> (at least as far as advertisements are concerned) but that's still a
> factor of 40:1.
>
> On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 8:38 AM, Alex <alex@thewinelake.com> wrote:
>> We've been wondering about trying to offer a service on ipv6 as it would
>> get around various LAN issues.
>>
>> Just wondered what experiences (good or bad) people here have had with
>> it and also why there isn't more "'buzz"?
>>
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