Tore, Um, haven't you heard that we are out of IPv4 addresses? The point of IPv6 is to expand address space so that the Internet can keep growing. Maybe you don't want to grow with it, but most people do. Eventually IPv4 will be dropped and the Internet will be IPv6-only. Dual-stack is just a convenient transition mechanism.
-mel On Jan 30, 2015, at 5:03 AM, "Justin M. Streiner" <strei...@cluebyfour.org> wrote: > On Fri, 30 Jan 2015, Tore Anderson wrote: > >> For many folks, that's easier said than done. >> >> Think about it: If everyone could just dual-stack their networks, they >> might as well single-stack them on IPv4 instead; there would be no >> point whatsoever in transitioning to IPv6 for anyone. > > I re-read this 3 or 4 times, and it still doesn't make any sense. > > I dual-stacked our backbone here at $dayjob 3+ years ago, and it really > wasn't painful at all. Sure, there were were some transition pains, but > they've been more at the edge (firewalls, wireless, managing users, etc), but > getting the backbone to handle both v4 and v6 was the easy part. > > Granted, this process can be more or less painful in different environments, > but definitely no reason to stick your head in the sand and pretend that IPv6 > doesn't exist, especially in 2015. > > jms
