On 24-Jan-2007, at 10:01, Jamie Bowden wrote:
Some days it kills me that v6 is still not really viable, I keep asking providers where they're at with it. Their most common complaint is that the operating systems don't support it yet. They mention primarily Windows since that is what is most implemented, not in the colo world but what the users have.
Windows XP SP2 has IPv6. It isn't enabled by default, but it's not difficult to do.
Apparently Vista does do IPv6 by default out of the box, but I don't have a Vista system to play with yet to confirm this.
I might argue that, legacy systems and hardware aside, the main reason that v6 might be considered non-viable these days is the lack of customers willing to pay for it. I don't think the viability of v6 has been blocking on operating systems or router hardware for quite some time, now. It's still a problem for many operational support systems, but arguably that would change rapidly if there was some prospect of revenue. Joe