 eyetack
join:2002-09-05
Leicester, MA | reply to Jeebus Juice
Re: ip 6 questions A couple other posters answered the basic questions, but I'll put my couple cents in.
BGP is still going to be required for the global Internet, because that's how everyone is going to know about everyone else's routes, AS paths, etc. As was highlighted though, you won't be getting thousands of little routes for each AS. The IPv6 space is large enough that there isn't the same need to allocate microblocks like IPv4's CIDR and such. I expect most AS announcements to be one route, maybe two.
IPv6 implementation is already underway, and has been for the better part of a decade. WinXP, Vista, MacOS X, *nix, all have appropriately functional IPv6 stacks in them. Also, most modern core network hardware has IPv6 capability already. Some older hardware doesn't have IPv6 in ASICs like IPv4 does, but that is more rare than not at this stage.
However, IPv6 is severely lacking in residential gateway hardware. From the way I understand IPv6, those devices will probably more or less act like bridges and stateful firewalls. NAT will be eliminated, but something will need to watch the gates for unauthorized traffic, per se. |
