[Info-vax] implementing IPv6 on the internet

[Dirk Munk]

Chris wrote:
> On 09/21/16 21:43, Dirk Munk wrote:
>
>>
>> Everybody, if you use the 10.0.0.0 private address range. But that's not
>> the point. You seem to assume that you can easily route messages from
>> IPv6 (WAN) to IPv4 (LAN). That is not the case.
>>
>
> That's just a software engineering problem. If there is the need, the
> code will be written to provide a solution. For an incomplete but
> adequate for the task solution, the design may not be that complex.
>
> I see the spread of IPV6 as a downward spread from the top, with one
> of the last stages being home and sm business routers that do in fact
> translate the V6 on the Wan to V4 on the private local net. Any other
> way would cause far too much disruption for all concerned. Example:
> those who use fixed ip addresses on the local net, not those provided
> by the router dhcp. That's just the start of the problems. The whole
> idea of any rollout like this is for it to be seamless and disruption
> free. Sure, it will come, but not overnight and it will take years to
> complete...
>
> Regards,
>
> Chris
>


Keep on dreaming :-)

It's quite simple. Since Windows Vista IPv6 is the preferred IP stack 
for Windows. Mac OS and Linux have IPv6. Every CE router you can buy 
today has IPv6, or can get it by means of a firmware upgrade. Dual 
stacks or tunnels are standard for these routers. In Belgium 45% of the 
internet connections have IPv6.

There is no IPv6 <> IPv4 translating CE router on the market.

Not only that, but it can't work like that. Your PC will do an 
nsloookup, and will get a IPv4 and IPv6 address in return. If there is 
no IPv6 network present on your LAN, the PC will make an IPv4 
connection. Your router can only send that traffic to its IPv4 
destination. It will never know it can also translate it and send it to 
an IPv6 address.

I have been using IPv6 for 7 or 8 years now without a glitch.

So I'm sorry to say this, but your ideas are completely besides the reality.