IPv6 Are you ready?

[Moonliner]

I'm not, but I guess it's coming anyway (http://tech.slashdot.org/story/10/10/18/1825217/NRO-Warns-They-Are-On-Final-IPv4-Address-Blocks).

Everything you need to know about IPv6 (http://arstechnica.com/hardware/news/2007/03/IPv6.ars) looks like a good place to start.

Ipv6 Firewalling (http://arstechnica.com/hardware/news/2007/05/ipv6-firewall-mixed-blessing.ars) looks to be a good read as well.


Note: This is, for the moment, only of interest to those of us who support large numbers of PC's and/or just enjoy this stuff for it's own sake.

[Kevy Baby]

Whatever happened to IPv5?

[Moonliner]

Whatever happened to IPv5?

It died in committee.


IPv5 never became an official protocol. Many years ago, Internet Stream Protocol (ST) was considered IP version five by industry researchers, but ST was abandoned before ever becoming a standard or widely known as IPv5. Work on ST and IPv5 is not expected to ever restart.

[Alex]

I'll wait until it happens to worry about it. I remember getting excited about IPv6 in 1995.

It has taken long enough that I don't care any more.