[MLB-WIRELESS] IPv6 and the network

[Tony Langdon]

On 23/01/13 2:58 PM, Greg McLennan wrote:
> Hi Russell.
>
>     I too have pondered this in recent times. My `home' LAN has dual 
> stack running. My ISP internode has given me a large(everything is 
> large in ipv6!) static v6 range as part of my normal PPPoE connection. 
> For the most part it works great on my mikrotik & LAN.
Same here.  I don't notice IPv6 at home, it "just works".  In fact, I 
have had an incident or two where I was able to access a particular site 
but no one else could, because IPv6 was working on that site, and IPv4 
was busted! :)  I've also noticed about 20 mS less latency to the US 
from here on IPv6 vs IPv4. :)
>
> If it were to be implented on M/W I would image that there will need 
> to be some ground rules set up by a working group to work out the 
> equivilent of subnets for nodes and then there is DNS. If DNS was not 
> set for ipv6, pinging something like fe80::21b:63ff:feab:e6a6 if going 
> to do my head in ... I'd rather do ping  kmt.v6.melbournewireless.org 
> or similar if you catch my drift..
DNS is a must on IPv6, or it'll do your head in! :D
>
> There is also the issue of some current networking gear in the feild 
> not nativly passing ipv6 traffic unless the devices are in bridge 
> mode. All in all there is much pre-work to be thought about and 
> impleneted before I see me clicking on my ospf v3 button!!..
All academic for me, I'm a wee bit outside Melbourne these days, you'd 
have to get over Mt Macedon, Mt Alexander and Big Hill to reach me (or 
simply tunnel over the Internet) :)

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