Tag: IPv6
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Book: An Engineering Approach to Computer Networking
A while ago the Packet Pushers had Geoff Huston on as a guest in the future of networking series. There are lots of good ideas and contrarian opinions in that podcast episode – go listen to it. During the episode, Geoff mentioned a book that had a big influence on him called An Engineering Approach…
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Internet Redundancy, Or Not
Imagine you are a business that wants to have redundant connections to the Internet. Given the importance of an active Internet connection for many businesses this is a reasonable thing for an IT shop or business owner to ask for. One could also consider the serious home gamer who can’t risk being cut off as…
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Don’t worry about IPv6 running out
Coming from the scarcity of IPv4 it’s hard understand that it is OK to ‘waste’ addresses by using large prefix allocations in IPv6. IPv6 Exhaustion Counter IPv6 /48 Prefix Exhaustion Counter
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IPv6 deployment day is here
A few minutes ago major Internet companies enabled IPv6 permanently. Happy IPv6 day! World IPv6 Day World IPv6 Launch The view from my server: [dan@alpha ~]$ ping6 -n -c 1 www.google.com; ping6 -n -c 1 www.yahoo.com; ping6 -n -c 1 www.facebook.com PING www.google.com(2001:4860:4008:802::1012) 56 data bytes 64 bytes from 2001:4860:4008:802::1012: icmp_seq=1 ttl=59 time=5.04 ms —…
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A little IPv6 experiment
I’ve been running IPv6 on my home network for a while now. Since my provider doesn’t provide native IPv6 all external traffic occurs via 6to4. Last week I setup 6to4 on my server which lives inside a local ISP’s colocation facilities. This provided IPv6 connectivity between my home network and the server. The only changes…