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> still hasn't taken over the world Maybe not in the strict sense, but it kind of has. In the enterprises I've worked in the past decade with IPv6 running, at
by runjake 10mo ago
> still hasn't taken over the world
Maybe not in the strict sense, but it kind of has.
In the enterprises I've worked in the past decade with IPv6 running, at least 75% of the Internet traffic is IPv6. In my discussions with other engineers managing large networks, they seem to be seeing more or less that same figure.
The problem is that virtually nobody knows IPv6. I regularly bring up IPv6 in engineers' circles and I'm often the only one who knows much about it. And so, I have doubts about it's long-term future, except for edge cases. I figure some clever scheme utilizing IPv4 and probably NAT will come around at some point.
- einpoklum 10mo ago> In the enterprises I've worked in the past decade with IPv6 running What about those without IPv6 running? Anyway, in the enterprises I've worked in the past decade - of course, another anecdote - not once has anyone ever specified an IPv6 address of anything. Inside the organization or outside of it.
- 123pie123 10mo agowhy would an enterprise turn to IPv6? everything fit's nicely in the 10.0.0.0/8 range in my many decades of enterprise infrastructure, no-one has ever mentioned IP6 either. why would they, whats the business case?
- arccy 10mo agoone poorly made decision and oops you're out of 10/8 addresses if you've never run in to this, then sorry, you've not been in an enterprise, you're in a mom 'n pop shop cosplaying as enterprise.
- baq 10mo agoyou haven't had to set up intercompany vpns I see
- einpoklum 10mo agoIndeed I have not. But I suspect most people, and most companies, have not either. I don't claim IPv6 isn't used anywhere, or even that it's not used a lot.
- pixl97 10mo agoPretty much every fortune 500 company does, which counts for millions of people on their networks every day. The troubleshooting calls for VPN routing vs internal LAN routing are fun endeavors of who is actually willing to take responsibility for things they don't understand.
- formerly_proven 10mo agoSomehow still easier than v6.
- bigstrat2003 10mo agoIt is not in the least easier than v6. IPv6 isn't even difficult.
- p_l 10mo agoI've spent half a year getting nowhere on a discussion involving VPN-ing parts of the company just to have connectivity for specific services where part of the problem was lots and lots of overlapping 10./8 allocations - partially because everyone setting a "VPC" or some local dc network was doing individual 10./8, often "in name of simplicity". With subnetting needs, possibly dealing with VPNs to other networks that might use 10./8, ISPs that might use 10./8 instead of CGNAT space (100.64./10), even the total incompetence of some contractors was not reducing how IPv4 was a problem. And that's before you hit the part where Microsoft products have been IPv6 First since ~2008 and there are entire feature sets that are very interesting to bigger companies (like well integrated always-on vpn for laptops) that require working v6
- t_tsonev 10mo agoThe problem with private address ranges is that everyone thinks they're available. In a large enough enterprise you're bound to have conflicts. They usually pop up at the most inconvenient time and suddenly you're cosplaying ARIN in your IT department.
- throw0101a 10mo ago> everything fit's nicely in the 10.0.0.0/8 range Except during a merger/acquisition and both companies have 10.0.0.0/24 in their OSPF or IS-IS topology.
- alphager 10mo agoGrow large enough and you hit the limit pretty fast. NAT complicates things.
- pixl97 10mo agoThe best one is async routing. You have a NAT, they have a NAT, you VPN together and think you have different IP address ranges, but unknown to the operator there's a little internal network with an overlap at the end of some slow line that is now getting flooded with internal traffic that's trying to go to a completely different network.
- einpoklum 10mo agoI've worked for companies with over 50,000 employees and they didn't seem to need it. Now, sure, there are larger companies, or ones that employ huge farms of machines, but those are the exception rather than the rule.
- PunchyHamster 10mo agoif both you and companies you have site to site vpn with have IPv6 there is no IP conflict or NAT to worry about.... and that's about end of the advantages
- patmorgan23 10mo agoUnless you get to big. Or you merge with another company and have to combine your internal networks and oops, all the subnets are overlapping. Or you need to serve mobile clients who get better connectivity over v6.
- thayne 10mo ago> everything fit's nicely in the 10.0.0.0/8 range Except for when it doesn't. If you just use that space as a flat range, it is almost certainly more than enough. But if you split it up in multiple levels of subnets, you can run into difficulties balancing having enough subnets and having enough space in each subnet.
- yyyk 10mo ago240/4 is private and more than sufficient.
- chungy 10mo agoIt is not private, it is merely "reserved". If/when that range opens up for Internet address, you'll be in a world of hurt for having used it. IPv6 is much more stable on what you can use. fc00::/7 is actually private use.
- yyyk 10mo agoThat will never ever happen. Making 240/4 public will break Amazon (and many others) which do use it privately. The software updates to route it across the net would have been taxing. When making it public was suggested years ago, IETF saw the proposition as encouraging IPv4 and refused to entertain it. In short: The market has already decided and it's private. It's far from the first time an unofficial arrangement is the de facto standard.
- malwrar 10mo agoWe burned thru pretty much all of our public /8, RFC1918, and have begun digging into RFC6589 (a /10 I didn’t even know existed prior to job). Still shocks me. Hardly an expert in the space, but I think the issue comes from subnetting to distribute ranges to teams that need a consistent IP address space for some project or another. Lots of inefficiency & hoarding over time. We’ve had legitimate outages and impending platform death staved off by last minute horse-trading & spooky technical work due to such things. IPV6 has always been a distant aspiration.
- almosthere 10mo agoI am on my company's VPN right now and I get a 0/10 at test-ipv6.com
- elevation 10mo ago> not once has anyone ever specified an IPv6 address of anything. Inside the organization or outside of it. If you deploy IPv6 correctly, you shouldn't have to disclose IPv6 addresses to users inside or out -- DNS keeps the address literals abstract, hidden from users.
- RiverCrochet 10mo agoIPv4s are about to be bought, held, portfoilo'ed, speculated, and rented/mortgaged/sold like real estate. Companies like IPXO are already doing it. The costs of public IPv4's are going to go up for no technical reason because a new distinct ownership layer is springing up between you and the ISP. You're going to start renting them or paying a holder for the right to use them (on top of your ISP to transport it) at some point. And you can continue to do that, or get IPv6's for free.
- iso1631 10mo agoIPv4s have been bought and sold for years https://auctions.ipv4.global/prior-sales https://auctions.ipv4.global/prior-sales Prices have been going down in nonimal terms for years, let alone real terms. In terms of investment they're a terrible asset.
- swinglock 10mo agoIPv6 and CGNAT growth has finally started to suppress IPv4 prices. There was a huge pump when hyperscalers decided they needed more. But IPv6 keeps growing and is the majority of traffic in many networks. If you own significantly more IPv4 addresses today than you need, I would dump them on the market yesterday. Spend some of the profits to move to IPv6 if still needed.
- rr808 10mo agonice. I wish I could buy an address instead of renting from aws...
- rahimnathwani 10mo agoIt seems like the addresses cost about $20 each, and can be rented out for ~$5/year. That doesn't seem terrible.
- wmf 10mo agoJust to be pedantic, it's "illegal" to hoard IPv4 or to buy it for any purpose other than using it directly. But yeah, in the real world it may become more financialized than it already is. OTOH if prices keep dropping maybe they won't bother.
- gsich 10mo ago>Maybe not in the strict sense, but it kind of has. >In the enterprises I've worked in the past decade with IPv6 running, at least 75% of the Internet traffic is IPv6. Nobody cares about those. What matters is if my device has an IPv6 address assigned.
- iknowstuff 10mo agoOk then: most people in the US do. The rest of the world is looking increasingly ipv6 too: https://www.google.com/intl/en/ipv6/statistics.html#tab=per-country-ipv6-adoption https://www.google.com/intl/en/ipv6/statistics.html#tab=per-... India is 71% IPv6 (probably thanks to Jio), China has it in its 5 year plan, Europe is doing well, etc
- MBCook 10mo ago> at least 75% of the Internet traffic is IPv6. > Nobody cares about [that]. What matters is if my device has an IPv6 address assigned. This seems to be the weird dichotomy in these comments. Some people are arguing from the position that is absolutely everywhere and is doing great. Others are saying since their machine doesn’t show it it’s dead and no one cares. Is there a term for this? A successful failure? A failed success? Kind of odd.
- ryoshoe 10mo agoMaybe the False Consensus Effect? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_consensus_effect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_consensus_effect
- cyberax 10mo ago> Maybe not in the strict sense, but it kind of has. I challenge you to find: 1. A hotel in the US that provides IPv6. I have NEVER been in one, and I once stayed in a hotel (in Mountain View, CA) that was giving out public IPv4 addresses. 2. An easier task: a SIP provider that has IPv6 (in the US). You know, for the VoIP that is supposed to be a poster child of end-to-end connectivity.
- pif 10mo ago75% or 99% does not matter. Until you can't forget about IPv4, IPv6 us useless.