Comments on: Google On Board With IPv6 http://www.pcmech.com/article/google-on-board-with-ipv6/ Helping Normal People Get Their Geek On Sun, 22 Nov 2009 04:43:08 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Martin Levy http://www.pcmech.com/article/google-on-board-with-ipv6/comment-page-1/#comment-10316 Martin Levy Wed, 14 May 2008 21:02:46 +0000 http://www.pcmech.com/article/google-on-board-with-ipv6/#comment-10316 Rich, I have to disagree with your answer to "Do you have to prepare for IPv6 now?". You state "No. But in 2010, yes.". It's NOW that enterprise networks and end users should be enabling IPv6, not in 2010. As the support for IPv6 has matured (Yes - Vista, Server 2008, Linux and Mac OS X all come IPv6 enabled) end users can experiment with IPv6 now vs. being caught off guard in two years. Even a simple Windows XP box can be enabled with an "ipv6 install" command at the cmd prompt. Here at Hurricane Electric, we have just published a letter to our customer-base saying exactly that. Get prepared now; don't wait. A copy can be found at: http://he.net/news/Hurricane_Electric_IPv6_Update_April_2008.pdf and takes the approach that now vs. later is better. Finally, your point about routers and support for IPv6 is a little too generic. Even a five-year-old Cisco 36xx router I recently looked at was fully capable of running IPv6 routing at an end-point. It's even capable of terminating an IPv6 tunnel. Sometimes that old hardware can surprise you! Enjoy, Martin Rich,

I have to disagree with your answer to “Do you have to prepare for IPv6 now?”. You state “No. But in 2010, yes.”.

It’s NOW that enterprise networks and end users should be enabling IPv6, not in 2010. As the support for IPv6 has matured (Yes – Vista, Server 2008, Linux and Mac OS X all come IPv6 enabled) end users can experiment with IPv6 now vs. being caught off guard in two years. Even a simple Windows XP box can be enabled with an “ipv6 install” command at the cmd prompt.

Here at Hurricane Electric, we have just published a letter to our customer-base saying exactly that. Get prepared now; don’t wait. A copy can be found at: http://he.net/news/Hurricane_Electric_IPv6_Update_April_2008.pdf and takes the approach that now vs. later is better.

Finally, your point about routers and support for IPv6 is a little too generic. Even a five-year-old Cisco 36xx router I recently looked at was fully capable of running IPv6 routing at an end-point. It’s even capable of terminating an IPv6 tunnel. Sometimes that old hardware can surprise you!

Enjoy,

Martin

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