On Dec 11, 2013, at 2:18 PM, Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com> wrote:
It doesn’t. You can get IPv6 working with off-the-shelf equipment if you choose to.
Randy chose to use that particular hardware and software combination.
I'll chime in with a link to data: http://www.google.com/ipv6/statistics.html#tab=per-country-ipv6-adoption Looking at things, USA is at 5%+ adoption, which is due to the hard work of folks at Comcast (and other ISPs). Overall google is seeing 2.5%+ of traffic over native IPv6. in several cases IPv6 is actually faster than IPv4: 16 bytes from 2001:418:3f4::5, icmp_seq=0 hlim=57 time=18.649 ms 16 bytes from 2001:418:3f4::5, icmp_seq=1 hlim=57 time=19.008 ms 16 bytes from 2001:418:3f4::5, icmp_seq=2 hlim=57 time=18.959 ms ^C --- puck.nether.net ping6 statistics --- 4 packets transmitted, 3 packets received, 25.0% packet loss round-trip min/avg/max/std-dev = 18.649/18.872/19.008/0.159 ms PING puck.nether.net (204.42.254.5): 56 data bytes 64 bytes from 204.42.254.5: icmp_seq=0 ttl=55 time=32.920 ms 64 bytes from 204.42.254.5: icmp_seq=1 ttl=55 time=18.467 ms 64 bytes from 204.42.254.5: icmp_seq=2 ttl=55 time=22.014 ms 64 bytes from 204.42.254.5: icmp_seq=3 ttl=55 time=20.807 ms 64 bytes from 204.42.254.5: icmp_seq=4 ttl=55 time=19.096 ms ^C --- puck.nether.net ping statistics --- 5 packets transmitted, 5 packets received, 0.0% packet loss round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 18.467/22.661/32.920/5.280 ms - jared