Hi to all
I have been following this discussion and I'd like to jump in with just a little detail which may change the way users take on IPv6 for 2010. Windows 7 includes a service which is called direct access and it ONLY works with IPv6. Pretty cool stuff. Many of my customers, small and large, have stayed with XP and they will move to Windows7 pretty soon when it's released. And so might home users do, because Windows7 is WAY better than Vista.
Times are achanging. I do believe that providers who do their job in the background while there is time and no pressure will be the winners in the long term.
So for me this means I have to update my books to get ready for the wave ;-)
Cheers Silvia Hagen
Nicolas Strina writes:
Hello,
It's also your job to help your customers to migrate to v6 .. Currently thats what i'm doing and i see more and more people asking for v4/v6 access at once .. Works fine it's just a question of "communication" to your customers. Ok the hw is quite important but well .. I see lots of CPE able to do the job even on DSL.
Cu,
Nico
On 26 Feb 2009, at 08:50, Andreas Fink wrote:
Sorry but "most windows PCs and home servers would need some tuning for v6" is just WRONG. If you have a proper configured IPv6 router and you plug a MacOS X or Linux box, they get IPv6 addresses automatically and are connected. This is part of the beauty of IPv6 to have autoconfiguration.
I agree with you, because I have a very good router at home, and Mac OSX - and as you say it just works. But
- There seems to be no consensus about how to serve end user
addressing for ipv6
- Because there is no clear standard, there are no "normal" consumer
CPE that support ipv6.
When both of these things happen, some clever people who understand how people buy can invent a 'made for the new internet' sticker that all of the CPE will want to carry on their packaging, and the CPE problem will eventually go away.
...... In my opinion. :-)
Andy
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