Subject: Re: Big day for IPv6 - 1% native penetration Date: Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 11:18:13PM +0000 Quoting Dobbins, Roland (rdobb...@arbor.net): > How much of a priority do you think IPv6 capabilities are for corporate IT > departments, beyond a checklist item on RFPs in order to CYA?
I am -- in addition to running eBGP for my employer -- also the acting network strategist and proper IP networking evangelist at my employer. We have been buying v6 compatible gear and connections for four years now. We are configuring IPv6 on all backbone links and are carefully deploying v6 to workstation and server networks all over the enterprise. > Where are the IPv6-only SQL Server deployments within enterprises, for > example? In fact, where are the IPv6-enabled client access LANs within > enterprises? Or even the *plans* for these types of deployments/capabilities? There are no v6-only deployments of SQL Server. The admins request and setup v4, the server requests and sets up v6, and the clients use whatever is in the DNS. The server will register in DNS so v6 has a fair chanche of getting chosen. > Maybe they're hiding in plain sight. But I don't think so. We discovered that the HUB/TRANSPORT nodes in the Exchange collective talked Link-local v6 to the MBOX nodes. Service discovery. Magic. The Exchange admins had no idea, but that probably was because they are good, obedient employees and use the mandated email client, which makes viewing headers something of a challenge. V6 will, given a few careful pushes, deploy itself. Slightly exaggerated, but that's how it is. -- Måns Nilsson primary/secondary/besserwisser/machina MN-1334-RIPE +46 705 989668 I love ROCK 'N ROLL! I memorized the all WORDS to "WIPE-OUT" in 1965!!
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