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I agree!!!!

This change to v6 will cut alot of us off!! (Unless the hardware converts it which will most likely cause SLOWDOWNS)

Please research the topic, including enabling IPv6 in your OS, before spreading FUD like that. I mean, exactly what needs converting? We are talking about enabling an extra real or virtual network interface with another IP address, which happens to be an IPv6 address. How do you propose that will affect the interface that's on IPv4? Also, if a site is IPv6 only(which nobody here is proposing) and your connection is IPv4-only, it's at the software level(your OS) that tunneling gets enabled. That can cause a little bit of slowdown if the particular tunnel is overloaded, but it should be able to output as much bandwidth as any other server on the internet. Do a little research Dude111 and you'll find your fears are unfounded and BBR will work fine for you still.
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Im on Win98se (And many others are also) Will it work for us??

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What about Trumpet? I never really played with it, but it's supposed to enable IPv6 in 98, 98SE and 95. Those OS are Swiss Cheese on the internet anyways. It's about time someone killed their network access for the greater security of both the typical user still using these OSes and the rest of the internet. Not even a filesystem with access controls or non-privileged user accounts. You can only secure that so far, other than just sheer avoidance of exposure to threats. Don't expect your AV(if it even works under those) to stand up to even 50% of threats is a good rule to follow even today. Today, you do have things to complement your firewall and AV.
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In IPv4 space, we are running out of time.

Please do, not widdle your thumbs - either, something.

Thanks.

From Security Now! with Steve Gibson, Episode 271, recorded October 19, 2010: Your questions, Steve's answers, #103.

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David Eckard in Durham, North Carolina, wonders about IP space depletion. And we ain't talkin' the Shuttle here. He says, "Subject: 95% used up." He said, according to this article, and he quotes a CNET article, IPv4 addresses are now all but 5 percent done. And they're calling for an orderly move to IPv6.

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So to give our listeners a sense for where we are, at the beginning of '06 there still remained 62 unallocated, what's called a "slash eight network," meaning only the top, specifying just the top eight bits of the network address out of a total of 256 of them, which is how many combinations in a single byte. 62, even in '06, were still unallocated; so, what, just shy of one quarter of the entire Internet, because 64 is one quarter of 256 possibilities. So 62 were unallocated in 2006. One year later, that number had dropped to 49 in '07. One year later, in '08, to 41. In '09, to 32. At the beginning of 2010, we were at 22. Today we're at 12.

Leo: Wow.

Steve: So, yeah.

Leo: That's a dramatic drop.

Steve: Yeah. And so things like 5-dot will not be available for long. In fact, my feeling is, my summation to sort of sum this up overall for David and our listeners, is I think 2011 is going to be very interesting.

Leo: Interesting in not a good way.

Steve: Yeah. I mean, at the rate it's been dropping, we burned up, between '08 and '09, we went from 41 to 32. So that burned up nine. From the beginning of '09 to '10, to 2010, we went from 32 to 22. So we burned up 10 more. Between 2010 and now we went from 22 to 12, meaning we burned up another 10 in less than a year.

Leo: It's accelerating.

Steve: Yes. It was nine for the prior year, 10 for the year after, and now we're already at 10, and we're not done with this year. Which says, and this is what the predictions are, that before this time, before October is through of 2011, we're done. We're out.

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