Level Up to IPv6 with Ubuntu 10.10 on Comcast (Linux.com) [LWN.net]

Level Up to IPv6 with Ubuntu 10.10 on Comcast (Linux.com)

Posted Oct 20, 2010 21:12 UTC (Wed) by jwb (guest, #15467)
In reply to: Level Up to IPv6 with Ubuntu 10.10 on Comcast (Linux.com) by CrackerJackMack
Parent article: Level Up to IPv6 with Ubuntu 10.10 on Comcast (Linux.com)

It does not seem to be practical to run pure v6 on the LAN anyway. I just checked my switch and it supports management only via v4, and I'm sure there are many other embedded things without v6 stacks.

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Level Up to IPv6 with Ubuntu 10.10 on Comcast (Linux.com)

Posted Oct 20, 2010 22:35 UTC (Wed) by lutchann (subscriber, #8872) [Link]

Things are getting there. A lot of what's driving IPv6 adoption at the moment is very large enterprises needing to address all their manageable devices and not having enough 1918 addresses to do so without the yuckiness of internal NAT and overlapping address space. Apparently Dell's iDRAC systems have had IPv6 support for more than a year now:

http://www.personal.psu.edu/dvm105/blogs/ipv6/2009/06/mor...