IPv6 Ignorance

Jeroen Massar jeroen at unfix.org
Tue Sep 18 11:22:24 CEST 2012


On 2012-09-18 11:20 , Gert Doering wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 11:12:08AM +0200, Jeroen Massar wrote:
>> I am still wondering why native or ISP-provided-IPv6 is so important.
>>
>> I've been happily using tunneled IPv6 for more than 10 years already and
>> never had a real issue with it except when some routing or a box was
>> broken somewhere, 
> 
> Because the point is not to rely on IPv4 to have working IPv6, but to
> eventually get *rid* of IPv4...

I don't see that happening any time ;)

But indeed, a non-tunneled, thus truly native IPv6 has an advantage there.

As most larger ISPs seem to be going for 6rd though, that is not the case.

Greets,
 Jeroen




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