Solaris 8/9 can also support IPv6. As above though, subnetting is getting around the problem and also virtual IP addressing.

The whole seamless network connectivity thing demonstrates how virtual addressing works, but i am not sure i can explain it properly. As far as i understand it, if you use, for example a PDA, laptop/tablet PC you can roam from a wired network (10/100 or Gbit) to a wireless LAN, and then onto a GPRS connection without losing connectivity as your "virtual IP address" gets passed to all the different networks and is associated with a physical IP address.

I think thats right.

Dave

[Edited by druddle - 11/4/2002 11:37:04 PM]

 

Apparently China only has one ClassA address. I am betting they will be rolling out IPv6 as a matter of urgency The problems probably stem from the fact that the US has about 75% of the address space, so despite being the technology leaders in computing are not driving this one hard...
This is pretty interesting

EDIT: Just reading the above, and the fact that I said an IPv6 document is "interesting". I have just realised that my life is irretrievably sad. Help.

[Edited by MrDeference - 11/4/2002 11:46:49 PM]

 

A couple of years ago there was this big story about how we were running out of IP adresses, and that we'd all have to go to xxxx.xxxx.xxxx.xxxx for a new range of addresses. IP V6 I think it was.

I've not seen any 4 digit IP addresses for a while(outside of the test labs anyway) so what happened. Did the .com crash release a load back into the wild, or was there some fancy subnetting going on to stop everyone upgrading?

 

fancy subnetting going on to stop everyone upgrading!

win xp and win 2000 both support ip6.

 

I thought some backbones were running IP6 now??

David

 

Increased use of private address space.

"Most" companies now use private addresses and NAT.

Deano

 

Unless you're BIG you won't get allocated anything like the old classes of IP addresses, you'll get a CIDR allocation more near your needs, which means less IPs wasted being unused, but then more wasted as network/broadcast addresses. Only trouble is you'll probably get this from your ISP and it most likly isn't portable. My office has a /28 with various machines on running externals services, but most of the machines are hidden behind a NAT on private address space.

If you want to fiddle with IPv6, since most proper OSes support it, you can hook up to something like 6bone using IPv6 in IPv4 tunneling from here.

FWIW I think the Japanese are waaay ahead in the rollout of IPv6

Oh, one more edit, a bit short on what the addresses look like. Look forward to named.conf's like this:
zone "1.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0 .0.0.0.0.0.0.0.IP6.INT" {
type master;
file "localhost-v6.rev";
};


and IPs like: 3ffe:501:4819:2000:210:f3ff:fe03:4d0

[Edited by Andrewza - 11/5/2002 11:06:07 AM]

 

thank **** for dns

 

That's a real one as well, if you've got IPv6 it's www.kame.net

Or dig AAAA www.kame.net for those without