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January 14, 2012 01:05 am

IPv6-Only Is Becoming Viable

An anonymous reader writes "With the success of worldIPv6 day in 2011, there is a lot of speculationabout IPv6 in 2012. But simply turning on IPv6 does notmake the problems of IPv4exhaustion go away. It is only when services are usablewith IPv6-only that the internet can clip the ties to the IPv4 boatanchor. That said, FreeBSD, Windows,and Androidare working on IPv6-only capabilities. There are multipleaccounts of IPv6-onlynetworkdeployments. From those, we we now know thatIPv6-only is viable in mobile, where over 80% (ofa sampling of the top 200 apps) work well withIPv6-only. Mobile especially needs IPv6, since their are only4 billion IPv4 address and approaching 50billion mobile devices in the next 8 years. Ironically,the Android test data shows that the apps most likely to fail arepeer-to-peer, like Skype.Traversing NAT and relying on broken IPv4 is built into their methodof operating. P2P communications was supposed to be one of thekey improvements in IPv6."

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