Chinese officials are calling for a mass migration to IPv6 after disclosing that they have only 830 days' worth of IPv4 resources left.The disclosure was made by Li Kai, director of IP of the China Internet Network Information Center.
Li explained at a conference that, without a rapid changeover to IPv6, internet users in China will start having problems getting online.
"We held seminars almost everywhere to tell operators to apply for the remaining IP addresses as soon as possible, and to prepare the new IP addresses from IPv6 for internet users," he said, according to state media.
Around 80 per cent of China's IPv4 resources have now been taken up. The country's IP allocation recently exceeded Japan's, making it the second largest in the world behind the US.
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Hehe my tubes work fine...
ipv4 and ipv6 are different networks so it's not just a matter of connecting new people to the ipv6 backbones
I can enable IPv6 on my network (And give each system a public IPv6 address), but I have to tunnel the IPv6 packets over v4 packets to a host that has both v4 and v6 access (and it forwards my v6 packets over the v6 network and sends the v6 responses back to me tunneled through v4). If my ISP offered v6, I would just have to enable it on my router and it'd pick up the routing.
How are new routers going to create more addresses? It's not like older routers can't count up to 255.255.255.255, the only thing I think you believe newer routers can do is use NAT to share the same addresses between multiple clients, which would only be a short-term solution fraught with problems (NTL used to do a somewhat similar thing and it caused all sorts of grief with people). You don't see a problem because you don't live in a country that's fast running out of addresses.
IPv6 IS the future and it's not just IPv4 with more addresses, it's a whole new technology that's faster and more secure. In fact, the extra addresses are merely a side-effect of the whole thing. All commercial networking equipment for about the last 5 years has been IPv6 compatible, it's the home-grade stuff that needs to be upgraded and that's the reason ISPs are so reluctant to do it.
I, for one, would be pretty ****ed off if my ISP gave me an address that was NATed with other people.
Each time you pass through a NAT, it wraps your packet, packets can only get so large and after enough NAT's, your packet would be too large. and we'd have to run a whole bunch of NAT's to keep up with expansion for the next 20-30 years.
Stop people having to remember IP's
that's an IPv6 adress right? I'm using Vista and my router is IPv6 enabled. That would certainly add a bunch more IPs to the table, i guess we should have at least 30 for every person on earth after that.
that's an IPv6 adress right? I'm using Vista and my router is IPv6 enabled. That would certainly add a bunch more IPs to the table, i guess we should have at least 30 for every person on earth after that.
It's a lot more than that, it's approximately 39,614,081,257,132,168,796,771,975,168 addresses for every single person alive today
2^95 = 39,614,081,257,132,168,796,771,975,168. That's per PERSON, so that times 6,500,000,000 is the total number of addresses. w00t!
I spam myself. It makes me feel better when I get opportunities to make my mid-section organ bigger.
and aimed at the American market, tells us something about who's buying from these people
P.S. - When it is time then it is just a settings change on my router to match ISP settings.
P.S. - When it is time then it is just a settings change on my router to match ISP settings.
What about your modem?
P.S. - When it is time then it is just a settings change on my router to match ISP settings.
What about your modem?
My modem is bridged so it isn't affecting IPv6 for me. I have verified that I have IPv6 connectivity and I left my router externally pingable. I need it that way because my tunnel broker does a ping weekly to make sure that the my endpoint is still active and gives me points when I do. It is also logged. If it breaks then I will know.
P.S. I will also know because ipv6.google.com doesn't connect on a IPv4 only network.
The docs may be out-of-date but php.net/ip2long reads "The function ip2long() generates an IPv4 Internet network address from its Internet standard format (dotted string) representation." which leads me to believe that won't work with IPv6.
If you were making a joke, it went over my head.
If you were making a joke, it went over my head.
0-255
00-FF
00000000-11111111
It's all the same.
If you were making a joke, it went over my head.
0-255
00-FF
00000000-11111111
It's all the same.
That about sums up why I was confused.
Still a shame they'll be more difficult to remember... might have to print out my HOSTS file next time I have DNS problems
It is quite cool to access my WiFi printer from the internet directly connecting through IP
Most UK ISPs use the BT network, upgrade BT, you upgrade a whole bunch of ISPs at the same time.
i think that its quite fitting that they have ipv6, seeing that they can make so much electronic gadgetry... i wonder if they will make cheap ipv6 internet enabled devices... granted these cheapo 'made in china' things might break down at any time but still it'll be an interesting way to fill up all those addresses
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