Less than 5% of the IPv4 address space remains

I wonder what effect this would have on ISP and routers. They are all IPv4
 
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All we need to do is shut down some of those porn sites...and we will be up and running again ;)
 
Almost time for the second-hand ip market to start up?

Loads of companies sit with waaay more ips than they need, simply because years ago large chunks were handed out.
 
Are there any ZA ISP's issuing IPv6 addresses? I did try adding it as an option to my PPPoE negotiation, and could not establish a connection. :-(

An approach to recovering IP addresses might be for the registrars to offer money for large blocks, and fund that by selling addresses from within those blocks at a slight profit. That would provide an incentive for companies sitting on unused address space to make it available.
 
RoganDawes said:
Are there any ZA ISP's issuing IPv6 addresses? I did try adding it as an option to my PPPoE negotiation, and could not establish a connection. :-(

An approach to recovering IP addresses might be for the registrars to offer money for large blocks, and fund that by selling addresses from within those blocks at a slight profit. That would provide an incentive for companies sitting on unused address space to make it available.
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Why recover them? It's time to move to IPv6. If they create a false market for IPv4... prices go up, and the inevitable is delayed.
 
been running ipv6 for well over a year now, using HE's tunnelbroker.

I run quite a few Cisco's and needed to do quite a bit of config to make it tunnel through dynamic ip's, but tunnel it does...

D
 
RoganDawes said:
Are there any ZA ISP's issuing IPv6 addresses? I did try adding it as an option to my PPPoE negotiation, and could not establish a connection. :-(
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Telkom's ADSL network cannot currently support IPv6 directly on the PPPoE layer and it will probably not be able to do so with the current IP-Connect architecture.

There are however ISPs that can provide IPv6 connections tunneled over your IPv4 connection which give much better latency than a tunnel all the way to HE.net ;)

*posted from my IPv6 connection* :D
 
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Pah... tunnels

But seriously, Its a sad state of affairs when the ISPs most likely to role out native IPv6 are the WISPs. Since they control their infrastructure 100%

The fact that no ADSL users will get native IPv6 until Telkom decides to allow the ISPs to provide it, goes to show who's still in command of the ZA Telco space.

*posted from my Native IPv6 connection*
 
Ok, to all the braggarts talking about native IPv6, and ISP's providing local tunnels, how about some names? :D
 
Already running IPv6 on a few servers I manage in the US and UK, locally though it'll probably take a very long time to get IPv6 close to implemented. We currently also run a tunnel to Tata for IPv6 access, so far everything is working pretty well, touch wood...

We could always start using those IPv4 class E addresses, another about 268 million...
 
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ambo said:
Telkom's ADSL network cannot currently support IPv6 directly on the PPPoE layer and it will probably not be able to do so with the current IP-Connect architecture.
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Hey ambo, at a guess I would think Telkom's 10K ESRs can terminate ip6cp over PPPoE (if configured), but the half-duplex VRF fuctionality used for IPConnect only supports ipv4 (currently?).

Hopefully something else that will push them to release IPStream sooner rather than later.
 
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Ok, to all the braggarts talking about native IPv6, and ISP's providing local tunnels, how about some names? :D
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PM me and I'll see if I can hook you up on a BETA program.

Roman4604 said:
Hey ambo, at a guess I would think Telkom's 10K ESRs can terminate ip6cp over PPPoE (if configured), but the half-duplex VRF fuctionality used for IPConnect only supports ipv4 (currently?)
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Yeah correct. Its more to do with the architecture of IPConnect than PPPoE. I have chatted to people at Telkom about the limitations and they are aware of them but they don't yet have enough 'demand' to do anything about it.
 
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