What do you think, people?

in my opinion, we are not ready in a technical view; we have no 128-bit machines and 128-bit addresses whould be merely unnatural;
meantime I use a sixxs' 6to4 tunnel and find it a more progressive, than ipv4; I'd be glad to join to IPv6 network directly (I mean a connection, when ISP provides IPv6 addresses)

At this time, I do not believe we "need" IPv6. However in the future, *something* *might* be needed if we run out of addresses. But, there are still lots of address ranges that are reserved and/or unassigned by IANA, so I don't believe we will run out in the immediate future.

I have IPv6 totally disabled on my systems. Also, since I haven't invested any time at all into familiarizing myself with its syntax, I find it funny & weird.

For those tinfoil-hat folks out there, IPv6 is possibly something to be avoided, because if one is to believe the FUD or rumors that have popped up in the past, among the first organizations to maybe use IPv6 might be the 3-letter ones (in Руссия, that would be the ГРУ or ФСБ or whatever) so if you want to keep them out of the system, it may be a small protective measure to block IPv6

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IPv6 is like 64-bit computing was (and 32-bit when it was new); few of us need any of its features yet and there are few situations in which it is usable but it will provide useful new features and capability in future, so much so that in a few years we will look back at IPv4 and regard it as quaintly primitive. Until it is common it is not going to be much use. At this time it is becoming more common as more IPv6-capable systems are being implemented. Pioneers with a need for its benefits will start to use it as using it becomes practicable; it will remain exotic and hence relatively expensive and little understood; gradually its use will become more widespread until a majority are using it and IPv4 becomes "legacy", used only by late adopters like the DOS users when Windows 3.1 became the commonest OS and so on.

I think that we will need IPv6 for public IP addresses but all "internal" ip address will probably stay IPv4 for a while

2 catkin, everything will alter [under the sun], but your choice, as I've understand - we have no reason for migration for now, yes?

it's really difficult for me to use both addresses (ping/ping6, iptables/ip6tables, etc); rather I'd prefer to use something like ::192.168.0.0/112 (or /96...); though these ranges are deprecated, they could help to easely use IPv6 everywhere

2 GrapefruiTgirl, sounds strange to me, for I've never heared such rumors... would be interesting, thank you

i was in a presentation at my university where a team of engineers networked a house where things like light switches had there own address.

right now ipv4 gives us about 4 billion addresses
there are now about 6 billion people in the world
ipv6 would yield about 256 trillion unique addresses

that should hold us until ipv8

We may not absolutely need it yet but a day will come when ipv4 is no longer adequate. Yes the addresses are longer and harder to remember and there is new syntax to learn but happens with many advances. The greater number of addresses will eliminate the need for most NAT and there are many other technical advantages as well.

The longer we wait the harder and more disruptive the inevitable change will be when it does occur. If the US had changed to metric back in Jefferson's day (it was considered at that time) think how many things would be simpler today.

Yes, it will be a necessity unless something else comes along. IPv4 is not going to last.

Why not make various networking tools "backwards compatable?".

-C

You think you understand this and they make it more complicated.

Stop it. My head hurts.