Re: Creating demand for IPv6

jableyca.afilias.info (Joe Abley) wrote:

> 6to4 (for content- or access-focussed networks) is
surely a solution  
> to the problem of "I have no good way to acquire
IPv6 transit";

It solves another problem as well, like "I cannot go v6
to
my servers because my load balancing and packet filtering
black boxes don't do it yet".

Elmar.

On 3-Oct-2007, at 1143, Elmar K. Bins wrote:

> jableyca.afilias.info (Joe Abley) wrote:
>
>> 6to4 (for content- or access-focussed networks) is
surely a solution
>> to the problem of "I have no good way to
acquire IPv6 transit";
>
> It solves another problem as well, like "I cannot
go v6 to
> my servers because my load balancing and packet
filtering
> black boxes don't do it yet".

I'm not sure how it solves that problem. 6to4 is not a
translation  
mechanism -- it's a tunnelling mechanism. 6to4 does not
provide any  
way for an IPv4-only host to talk to an IPv6-only host.

In order to make use of 6to4, surely servers and load
balancers still  
need to support IPv6 -- they just get loaded with addresses
covered  
by a 6to4 prefix rather than a prefix assigned by an RIR or
an IPv6  
transit provider.


Joe