XS4ALL Introduces native IPv6 for DSL customers

Marco Hogewoning marcoh at marcoh.net
Thu Aug 26 18:52:37 CEST 2010


On 26 aug 2010, at 17:43, Daniel Verlouw wrote:

> Excellent news, good job!
> 
> On Thu, 2010-08-26 at 17:22 +0200, Marco Hogewoning wrote:
>> XS4ALL customers can activate IPv6 on their account with a simple flick of a switch in the Service Centre on the company’s website. 
> 
> just out of curiosity why not turned on by default ? Router/modem
> compatibility issues? A provisioning thing? Or afraid of helpdesk
> overload with calls such as "my connection all of sudden doesn't work
> anymore after you turned on this Eye Pee Vee Six thing" ? ;)


Both, on one side we know we have a lot of non-IPv6 capable modems out there, so why waist resources on them. The other is indeed the fact taht if we push IPv6 to people without them being aware we might run into trouble.

Groet,

MarcoH



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