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| Authored by: JamesK on Monday, May 21 2012 @ 12:26 PM EDT |
Yes, I remember it. I wound up working New Years day at IBM Canada because of
it and the lunch they provided make old shoe leather appear appetizing. ;-)
However, I'm not quite certain what your question is. IPv6 has been in use for
years and pretty well has the bugs worked out of it. As I mentioned, I've been
using it for about 2 years. It's no more difficult to set up than IPv4. All
the functions are still there and the biggest difference is the address space.
My own personal subnet is about a trillion times the size of the entire IPv4
address space. There are some differences, but they tend to be enhancements
over what can be done with IPv4. You don't even require a DHCP server, to avoid
address configuration. It all happens automagically. One interesting thing in
this area is the way the addresses are created. While you can use DHCP or
manual configuration, you will also have an address based on the MAC address.
However, some people considered this a privacy concern, so recent operating
systems now also create a random number based address. You'd use the MAC based
address if you want DNS to point to your computer, but use the random address
when you're surfing the web, so that your computer is no longer identified as
the source, though the subnet is still known. There are other enhancements,
such as IPSec is standard, mobile IP, extension headers and much more, that take
IPv6 well beyond what IPv4 can do, even ignoring the difference in address
space.
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