http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/...54646720110203
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And here:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-12367484
I don't know about on your side of the pond, but over here all the ISPs are burying their heads in the sand over it :rolleyes:
My ISP has been beta testing ipv6 on their network for a year now. They're the only ones I've seen in Canada doing this.
http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r23849317-IPv6-beta
My PC and OS are ipv6 capable, can't say the same about my 4-5 yr's old router and modem though :(
Too old for anyone to write appropriate firmware as well.
I thought ISPs got around this by making their network a sort of 'local' network.
Please explain in terms we can understand. An IP address now consists of 4 numbers separated by periods. Are they just going to have more than 4 numbers or is it something more cryptic?
An example.. 3ffe:1900:4545:3:200:f8ff:fe21:67cf
Note that the :3: is actually 0003 but you will be able to omit leading 0's in any section/field.
http://www.opus1.com/ipv6/whatdoesan...slooklike.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPv6#Address_Format
Yes i hope they do!!Quote:
Originally Posted by A31Chris
The ISP i am on right now IS NOT IPv6 READY!! (This whole thing is a big mess!!)
That's how it is displayed, and it is called a dotted decimal IP number, but it actually a 32 bit number for the current system which is IPv4Quote:
Originally Posted by foxy
the 32 bit number is grouped into four blocks of 8 bits and these are in turn converted from Binary into decimal.
EXAMPLE:
11010011110010001001101000101001
becomes
11010011.11001000.10011010.00101001 by dividing into 8 bit blocks
this then becomes
211.200.154.41 by converting each block to decimal
This is purely an imaginary IP address used for this example only.
Hope that helped.
Vince Cert, the father of the Internet and now the Chief Google evangelist talks about this at a recent Linux Convergence, LCA2011 held in Brisbane, Australia in January this year.
see http://linuxconfau.blip.tv/file/4683393/