[TriLUG] OT: IP subnetting question

[Brian Henning]

I'm all for future planning, but seriously, when will it become painful?

I have my public IPv4 address(es) and all my service providers have theirs.
Do you really expect any major service providers to stop providing their
services over IPv4 networks any time soon?  

The way I see it, it's not going to become "painful" until IPv6 becomes
prevalent enough for service providers to turn off their IPv4 services.
Just because IPv4 runs out of address space doesn't mean all the existing
IPv4 networks will stop working.

When IPv4 /stops working/, then we'll have a problem.  I honestly can't
imagine that moment coming in, say, the next three years.


-----Original Message-----
From: trilug-bounces at trilug.org [mailto:trilug-bounces at trilug.org] On Behalf
Of Kevin Otte
Sent: Wednesday, August 10, 2011 10:10 AM
To: Triangle Linux Users Group General Discussion
Subject: Re: [TriLUG] OT: IP subnetting question

Furthermore, negotiating contracts now that will last for years into the 
future is the perfect time to be bringing that up. If you don't do it 
now, things are going to be painful down the road.

On 08/10/2011 12:40 AM, Jeremy Portzer wrote:
> On 8/10/2011 6:38 AM, Brian Henning wrote:
>> Probably none, but it's not much of a concern for us. I don't think
>> our VPN
>> equipment even supports IPv6 anyway.
>>
> Don't you think that was kind of his point. That IPv6 is still not part
> of the equation or discussion...pretty sad.
> My company's software is nowhere near IPv6 compliant, and when I ask the
> powers that be when they're planning on implementing it, they act like
> they've never heard of IPv6. Even despite World IPv6 Day and everything
> else that people have done to get the word out...it's sad.
>
> --Jeremy

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