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Re: [LUG] Your ISP - and IPv6

 

On Fri, Jul 5, 2013 at 8:13 PM, bad apple wrote:
> and will ship you a suitable router

That's probably the biggest bottle-neck. The router I got with my ADSL
line didn't support IPv6, so if my ISP were to support IPv6, they'd
also have to ship new routers, or at least an upgrade to the existing
ones. That's a support nightmare. And without new routers, there's
little point in spending a lot of effort supporting IPv6.

Meanwhile, a lot of work is being done to make big parts of the
Internet IPv6 ready. As others have pointed out, it's probably a good
thing that the change is happening slowly. Last year I did some
research into IPv6 and security, and it would be quite a nightmare if
the world suddenly switched to IPv6.

Martijn.

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