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- danbedford, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1it's funny how they dont mention mac os x has had ipv6 for a while now...
- Mabu, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1IPv6 will create the biggest increase in spamming the world has ever seen. Be warned, if you think you get a lot of junk mail now, it will increase exponentially. We cannot afford to roll out IPv6 until we can get some sort of agreement between nations to prosecute spammers who repurpose unbeknowst user's IP space. Relay blacklisting is the most reliable method of stopping spam right now and IPv6 will put an end to that.
- balexis, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"Relay blacklisting is the most reliable method of stopping spam right now and IPv6 will put an end to that"
Huh? Why will ipv6 put an end to that? ou just have to block lager netblocks that's all. Same AND operation. - Snuffkin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0And welcome to Old news!
- monolith, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Yea! More job security!
- SniperGX1, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0mmmmm ipv6 is yummy. IPSec mmmmmmmm
- carpespasm, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0the problem is ip6 addresses are a complete pain to read
- feedscott, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0The Japanese government estimates the move to IPv6 will create a $1.55 trillion technology market by 2010.
WOW! - stoops, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Good Stuff:
"It puts security into question, too, since few firewalls and intrusion detection systems are v6 compliant. IPv6 will enable several security features, such as authentication, encryption, and an inability to "spoof or pretend to be another IP address like you can in IPv4," not possible in IPv4, said Sinead O'Donovan, product unit manager for Windows Networking at Microsoft."
Bad Stuff:
"Implementation flaws in IPv6 have already hit a number of software vendors. Benninger provided a sample list: Cisco IOS IPv6 denial-of-service vulnerability, Linux Kernel IPv6 Denial of Service Vulnerability and Windows (XP, 2k3, Longhorn) is vulnerable to IPv6 Land attack."
Good read, I learnt something. - Lazybones, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0For the internet infrastructure it is a very important thing. For Joe average getting on line, NAT and a dynamic IP is more than enough and probably safer.
If everyone has a static unique IP you don't really need cookies to track users anymore. - Maceyhw, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"Telecommunication carriers periodically check to see if you're done using the dynamic address they loan you when making a call," Lightman asked. "The dirty little secret is carriers take the address back when they need it even if it ends the call, leaving you to think it’s a bad cell zone."
Anyone want to explain how cell phones use ip addresses? - IceBurn, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I hate my company network... They block the dumbest ***** sometimes....
Anyway, the few that I could read were pretty cool.... - monolith, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0ugh! Please tell me you didn't say ipx... have you not heard of netware? Run for the hills, the interweb is using netware!!!
- dannylewis, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0On a different note, the AT&T ad on the upper right corner of the page is the coolest ad I've ever seen. I wonder how they did that...
- ratsg, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0" Nat works fine,"
Nat may work for you sitting at home or your Soho where you surf the web, pop3/imap4 some email and play what ever the latest version of quake is. In the real world, Nat causes more problems then it solves.
"we aren't running out of IP's now."
I don't think that statement is correct, even in the States. Most countries were provided a very small fraction of IPv4 address, vs what the US has. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Why the excitement about extra IP addresses? nat works fine, we aren't running out of IP's now. We'll migrate when it's economically viable to migrate, not a moment sooner.
- baconbacon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0
Well, I guess that we should all think that this product manager knows about security? I don't think so. There is a way to hack the network now and there will be another way tomorrow.
It's a SSH-like system for authentification.... It would be in theory VERY hard to spoof or sniff an IP packet. But still there could be flaws in the implementation I guess. - baconbacon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0@dhughes
From Wikipedia :
IPv6 supports 3.4×1038 addresses, or 5×1028 for each of the roughly 6.5 billion people alive today. - baconbacon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0OK the last one is wrong :
IPv6 supports 3.4×(10^38) addresses, or 5×(10^28) for each of the roughly 6.5 billion people alive today.
That's better. - alexandreracine, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0The problem is that IPv6 will not protect you against "Bugs, spam, viruses, software security issues".
As for the quote above :"IPv6 will enable several security features, such as authentication, encryption, and an inability to "spoof or pretend to be another IP address like you can in IPv4," said Sinead O'Donovan, product unit manager for Windows Networking at Microsoft"
Well, I guess that we should all think that this product manager knows about security? I don't think so. There is a way to hack the network now and there will be another way tomorrow. - dhughes, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0I think it was on Wikipedia I saw about IPv6, it's like every person on Earth being able to use 7,000 unique IP addresses...for every cell in their body!
I'm not sue how many cells the average person has but if it's 1 trillion, that makes it 7,000 X 1 Trillion! Wow.
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