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| Comcast and IPv6 Comcast has already made plain that they will deploy IPv6 companywide (they are specifying that IPv6 support is mandatory in new CMTS RFPs; the same applies to STBs, naturally, as all D1.1 and above devices are either IPv6 ready or IPv6 upgradable).
If you run any recent operating system (Windows XP or later/ OS X 10.4 or later/Linux 2.6 kernels and later/OpenSolaris 9 and later), you need do nothing, as support for IPv6 is built in. The bigger issue is routers (not commercial routers, but residential routers, and third-party firmware thereof, such as Tomato and DD-WRT) and adapters (especially older adapters). | |
|   nixenRockin' the BoxenPremium
join:2002-10-04
Alexandria, VA | Re: Comcast and IPv6 said by PGHammer:OpenSolaris 9 and later), you need do nothing, as support for IPv6 is built in. Solaris has had IPv6 since the 2000 release of Solaris 8. OpenSolaris has *always* had it, as OpenSolaris didn't come out until *much* later.
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|  RobIn Deo speramus, God Bless the USAPremium
join:2001-08-25
Kendall, FL
kudos:2 | said by PGHammer: The bigger issue is routers (not commercial routers, but residential routers, and third-party firmware thereof, such as Tomato and DD-WRT) and adapters (especially older adapters). We can still use the ipv4 protocol for the local lan, so isn't all that big of a deal. Same with routers. The modem can handle the ipv6, while giving the router a ipv4 local IP.
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San Francisco, CA | said by PGHammer:If you run any recent operating system (Windows XP or later/ OS X 10.4 or later/Linux 2.6 kernels and later/OpenSolaris 9 and later), you need do nothing... Except re-enable IPv6 since I turn it off so my LAN isn't all screwed up. | |
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| Re: Comcast and IPv6 said by SLD:said by PGHammer:If you run any recent operating system (Windows XP or later/ OS X 10.4 or later/Linux 2.6 kernels and later/OpenSolaris 9 and later), you need do nothing... Except re-enable IPv6 since I turn it off so my LAN isn't all screwed up. Because residential routers don't support IPv6 (other than tunnelling, and only DD-WRT and WhiteRussian among third-party router firmware supports even that), how would IPv6 mess up a LAN? | |
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join:2002-04-17
San Francisco, CA | Re: Comcast and IPv6 My home router isn't exactly residential. When I connect newly installed Windows boxes to the network, they all communicate via their IPv6 addresses. | |
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| | said by PGHammer:Comcast has already made plain that they will deploy IPv6 companywide (they are specifying that IPv6 support is mandatory in new CMTS RFPs; the same applies to STBs, naturally, as all D1.1 and above devices are either IPv6 ready or IPv6 upgradable). If you run any recent operating system (Windows XP or later/ OS X 10.4 or later/Linux 2.6 kernels and later/OpenSolaris 9 and later), you need do nothing, as support for IPv6 is built in. The bigger issue is routers (not commercial routers, but residential routers, and third-party firmware thereof, such as Tomato and DD-WRT) and adapters (especially older adapters). Not for me. I intentionally compiled IPv6 OUT of my kernel. Until I need it, it will remain out. | |
| Mele20Premium
join:2001-06-05
Hilo, HI
kudos:4 | No, support for IPv6 is NOT in XP natively. You have todownload it and install it. Avira has caused me terrible headaches because of IPv6 addresses which their updater insists on trying to contact over and over and over and over and over on XP so that it takes hours to update when the updater finally decides to try IPv4 addresses. On Vista which is IPv6 aware, there are NO attempts by Avira updater to use nonexistent IPv6 addresses. On XP, I downloaded and installed IPv6 software from Microsoft and of course it made no difference because my ISP has not migrated so I uninstalled the software as it is useless on XP until my ISP migrates. My IPS says 2011 before they migrate and Avira should not have jumped the gun. Of course, the problem is that almost all DNS servers worldwide now return both IPv6 and IPv4 addresses yet most ISPs have not migrated.
Yes, home routers are a problem and I'm not buying a new router for this. ISPs will continue to use both for a long time after migrating.
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| Re: Comcast and IPv6 So i take it you deliberately avoided Windows XP Service Pack 2 (which included the IPv6 support)?
And the problem tha you described is application-specific and apparently has nit to do with IPv6 (the difference is that Vista, which uses the same TCP/IP stack as Windows Server 2003 R2, is in fact dual-stack; XP, evn with SP2 applied, is not).
I am not suggesting that anyone buy a home router for that reason now simply because support for DHCPv6 isn't there, even in the priciest residential routers. There won't be a need for residential routers to support DHCPv6 until the ISPs do.
Comcast has a major reason to support IPv6 (and DHCPv6 in particular) and it has nothing to do with the Internet; Comcast's network relies heavily on TCP/IP - from cable modems and set-top boxes to nodes, edge-routers, CMTS equipments, and headends and NOC switchgear. The fact that it's a private netowrk makes it worse (not better) because there are only so many IP addresses that Comcast can use. Therefore, it behooves Comcast to move to DHCPv6/IPv6 simply to reduce the IP-management headaches.
The issue with IPv6 isn't the ends; it's the vast middle. | |
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