Guys, this conversation turns really funny sometimes. One says, "I have a complex IT and network landscape with hundreds or thousands devices and business applications, and ipv6 deployment is not justified by today's needs". The other goes, nah, forget this crap, I tried ipv6 in my kitchen, and it works perfectly.
Just a side note, nothing personal :)
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From: Jeroen Massar jeroen@unfix.org To: Norbert Bollow nb@bollow.ch Cc: swinog@swinog.ch; Andreas Fink afink@list.fink.org Sent: Thursday, March 5, 2009 11:26:59 AM Subject: Re: [swinog] IPV6 Go (lazy providers)
Norbert Bollow wrote: [..]
Unless there is a good solution that allows end user organizations (e.g. companies of any size) to run IPv6 only on some of their network segments, it will mean just additional pain for little or no gain to run IPv6 in addition to IPv4. This is both with regard to the aspect of cost and also from the viewpoint of complexity management from the perspective of the organization's IT manager.
Most of the "Applications" that people are is Web-based nowadays. Thus just setup an apache2, squid or other proxy that can handle v6/v4 and you are done. Every other application that you are thinking of are either home-grown or commercial and in most cases don't support IPv6 yet, or will be hard to upgrade.