Are you IPv6 ready?

Nope, WA via SAIX.
I imagine this has nothing to do with Vista vs XP etc...
 
YES 3.4% NO 96.6%

And I suppose they use geo-location and some lame country stats thrown together to determine this
 
no, using the companies interwebz and have no idea if its IS or saix,

thinking about it though, (please forgive me, im no network fundi) surely all the answers will be no as the final link from router to pc has to also be IPv6 capable and im fairly certain no one out there has an IPv6 capable router....just a thought
 
hoegh said:
no, using the companies interwebz and have no idea if its IS or saix,

thinking about it though, (please forgive me, im no network fundi) surely all the answers will be no as the final link from router to pc has to also be IPv6 capable and im fairly certain no one out there has an IPv6 capable router....just a thought
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Same here, don't know what they are using either.

Was also wondering about the final link, but if there isn't an IPv6 capable router, who the heck managed to get a yes?

B
 
If you use Vista or Win7 and make a pppoe connection from the the OS you should be able to get a yes, but thats beacause these make a tunnel over ipv4 to provide ipv6 connectivity. This however only works if you make the connection on the pc, not if the router makes the connection.

There are also other ways of getting ipv6 connectivity, but as of yet I don't know of any ISP in SA giving this directly to their clients.
 
Mine's no via router and via PPPOE
WebAfrica and SAIX...
Would XP ever be able to get a yes considering it has no IPv6 in the default stack?
 
I think you all are missing the most important point of IPv6.

Back in the days when IPv4 addresses were running out Cisco designed Network Address Translation (NAT) to allow mulitple computers to sit behind a single IPv4 address.

This has it's problems but nevertheless worked.

Then along comes IPv6 with many many more IP addresses. This effectively means that for every person on this planet (say 4 billion) can each have 85 x 1 billion x 1 billion x 1 billion IP addresses. Realistically you can start handing out IP address for your dog's fleas and every brick in your house.

Anyway I digress. IPv6 allows for so many addresses that NAT is essentially made redundant.

Which then brings us back to our Telecom providers here in South Africa.

To roll out IPv6, Telkom would have to hand out fixed IP address to everyone (unless they could find a way to hand out non-random banks of dynamic addresses). Can you see this happening any time soon?

It would be the end of diginet and that means plenty of moola for them.

My last point is that the powers that be are contemplating introducing NAT to IPv6 but it's still in the discussion phase. Who knows?
 
hilton said:
To roll out IPv6, Telkom would have to hand out fixed IP address to everyone (unless they could find a way to hand out non-random banks of dynamic addresses). Can you see this happening any time soon?

It would be the end of diginet and that means plenty of moola for them.
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I don't follow this reasoning. Dedicated synchronous leased circuits will always have their place even when they cost more.

There are very few ISP's in the world running IPv6 to clients. Mostly only used on core/backbone networks at this stage. There are technical & logistical issues involved when switching to IPv6.
 
ponder said:
I don't follow this reasoning. Dedicated synchronous leased circuits will always have their place even when they cost more.

There are very few ISP's in the world running IPv6 to clients. Mostly only used on core/backbone networks at this stage. There are technical & logistical issues involved when switching to IPv6.
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Exactly my point. Why worry about whether or not your computer is IPv6 'ready' or not. Who cares!

As for the diginet dieing or not, think about this; there are many many more small buisinesses out there than corporations. Why run an expensive (although very reliable) diginet line when you can have any combination of ADSL, 3G, WiMax etc with STATIC IP addresses?

I'm well aware that they have their place but this place is becoming smaller.

Anyway to prove a point, I had to disable IPv6 on a Windows 7 machine to enable it to connect to a SBS 2008 server (which runs IPv6). Sad but true.
 
hilton said:
As for the diginet dieing or not, think about this; there are many many more small buisinesses out there than corporations. Why run an expensive (although very reliable) diginet line when you can have any combination of ADSL, 3G, WiMax etc with STATIC IP addresses?
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I know many small businesses that already run ADSL, dynamic IP addresses is not really an issue.
 
ponder said:
I know many small businesses that already run ADSL, dynamic IP addresses is not really an issue.
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Exactly - never has been... where I come from Telkom don't upgrade exchanges in the CBD area to allow ADSL. That's the only way to keep a diginet client IMO.
 
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