Elliott Karpilovsky wrote:
Hello everyone. My name is Elliott Karpilovsky, a student at Princeton University. In collaboration with Alex Gerber (AT&T Research), Dan Pei (AT&T Research), Jennifer Rexford (Princeton University), and Aman Shaikh (AT&T Research), we studied the extent of IPv6 deployment at both global and local levels. Our conclusions can be summarized by the following three points:
1.) IPv6 deployment is not seen as a pressing issue. 2.) We saw a lack of meaningful IPv6 traffic (mostly DNS/Domain and ICMP messages), possibly indicating that IPv6 networks are still experimental. 3.) Studying Teredo traffic suggested that it may be used for NAT busting by P2P networks.
Our paper (submitted and presented at PAM 2009) can be found at http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~elliottk/ipv6study.html . If you have comments or feedback with respect to these results, please feel free to express them.
Thank you.
Hi! Please check out the following link with some information/statistics from a LAN-party taking place in Norway (yeah, Norway is in Europe, not North America, but it stills give an overview): http://technet.gathering.org/?p=121 There were over 5000 computers in the arena and of those 47% had a valid and working IPv6 address. They was also provided with IPv4 and no NAT at all. The only ports being closed outbound was 25, 135-139 and 445. Google over IPv6 was enabled for the event as well, so a lot of the traffic was towards google. -- Harald Firing Karlsen