vnangia
Senior Member
Hi folks,
I was thinking that it may be time to review the state of IPv6 given that it's just a couple of weeks short of five years since Doug's article on IPv6 Basics. A lot has changed - global IPv4 pool exhaustion, serious attempts at CGN, etc - and a lot has not - ISPs (particularly in the US) are still more or less floundering with IPv6 deployment, hardware for the home is still in its infancy and such.
A particularly nice bit would be if you could help translate some of the concepts from IPv4 to IPv6, like NAT. For example, currently I think of my home network as being the addresses from 192.168.1.1 to 192.168.1.255; what does "my home network" mean when every address is globally routable? How do I keep my home network safe? Does my router still act as an intermediary?
Cheers!
I was thinking that it may be time to review the state of IPv6 given that it's just a couple of weeks short of five years since Doug's article on IPv6 Basics. A lot has changed - global IPv4 pool exhaustion, serious attempts at CGN, etc - and a lot has not - ISPs (particularly in the US) are still more or less floundering with IPv6 deployment, hardware for the home is still in its infancy and such.
A particularly nice bit would be if you could help translate some of the concepts from IPv4 to IPv6, like NAT. For example, currently I think of my home network as being the addresses from 192.168.1.1 to 192.168.1.255; what does "my home network" mean when every address is globally routable? How do I keep my home network safe? Does my router still act as an intermediary?
Cheers!
