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From: "Doug Barton" <dougb@dougbarton.us>
On 1/28/2013 6:23 AM, Jay Ashworth wrote:
To paraphrase Guy L Steele:
If we are this far on into the "new IPv6 world" and that question is not one which can be answered by a link on the first page of ghits for 'implementing IPv6', then the IPv6 people have blown it badly.
Can you show me the equivalent link for "I want to implement IPv4 on my network"?
IPv4 is mature enough that for small to medium sized networks, the answer is "you plug everything in". My appraisal of v6 is that it's an order of magnitude (or two) more complex than that, both in 'attack' surface and interoperability issues. But, I suppose, it took me a couple years to really learn IPv4 well. That said, *having* learned IPv4 relatively well, I remain surprised that there's as much additional (perceived) complexity in v6. Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink jra@baylink.com Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates http://baylink.pitas.com 2000 Land Rover DII St Petersburg FL USA #natog +1 727 647 1274