Many ISPs still don’t support IPv6 and neither does a lot of the equipment used at homes and offices. However, over a decade after the introduction of the newer standard (in 1997), uptake is still slow. It will also do away with the primary need for Network Address Translation (NAT) which has been a big headache for voice over IP (VoIP) and other peer to peer applications. The newer IPv6 standard that replaces 32-bit addresses with 128-bit addresses will forever take care of this shortage. These are the unique host addresses (usually written in dotted decimal format like 209.85.171.100) that identify client and server computers on the Internet. The biggest incentive for upgrading to IPv6 is the fact that at the current pace we’ll run out of (IPv4) IP addresses in about two years. That includes an Ubuntu Linux server, 4 PCs and one Mac. Last weekend I got IPv6 working on my US$60 router, allowing all my machines here to talk IPv6 to the outside world.
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