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There's a pretty massive bump in IPv6 usage on weekends. I'm assuming this is likely due to residential / mobile IPv6 adoption being higher than commercial adop

There's a pretty massive bump in IPv6 usage on weekends. I'm assuming this is likely due to residential / mobile IPv6 adoption being higher than commercial adoption?

X-Istence 12y ago
Even if it is available a lot of companies just don't have the experience with IPv6 and are hesitant to turn it on. Which BTW sucks when you are trying to test your product on IPv6.
- pling 12y ago
  This is our problem. People just don't understand it in the operations team. Our devops guys know it inside out but they have to use the services the operations team hand out which means v4 and shitty hardware. Yes corporate structure sucks. The silly thing is that there are several NATs and brick walls in the company which wouldn't need to exist with v6. I myself am v6 end to end at home. Linode at the head end and Andrews and Arnold at the bottom end.
  - mikevm 12y ago
    Does your ISP actually assign you multiple Internet addresses for every device in your home or do you still use NAT? If you still use NAT, what the heck is the point in using IPv6 at home?
    - rjsw 12y ago
      I use the same ISP, you get a /64.
    - pling 12y ago
      The router does stateless auto config so every machine in the house that does v6 has a static IP. You get a /64
      - mikevm 12y ago
        That's neat!
  - X-Istence 12y ago
    I too am full IPv6 at home. Got SLAAC handing out addresses from a /64 I am assigned from my ISP. Stateful firewall on the primary gateway to the internet :-) Love IPv6!!! I am on Comcast, so I have native dual stack internet. IPv4 and IPv6.
  - MatthewWilkes 12y ago
    I need to get my MyBook NAS working on IPv6 so I can disable v4 at home. I started using AA's 6464 DNS server, too, so I've got no outbound v4 at all now.
- DrStalker 12y ago
  You need to be able to show a business benefit before making changes like that; right now changing to ipv6 would give no benefit, require replacement of existing hardware and create additional troubleshooting load. Until that changes there won't be widespread adoption of ipv6 by businesses.
  - slashCJ 12y ago
    At somepoint Congress needs to offer some small tax incentive and companies will slowly confert with that business justification. (Like the Electric Vehicle credit for network hardware - come on Cisco lobbyists get on that!) Not sure if that if that extends internationally
  - nknighthb 12y ago
    > require replacement of existing hardware This is the most ridiculous excuse people use. The premise doesn't even apply except in extreme cases: 1) 10+-year-old gear. (And even then only some; I've got plenty of decade-old gear lying around that supports IPv6 just fine.) 2) Extremely demanding performance requirements (to be in this category you'd likely be spending millions every year on gear and the people to run it). 3) Shitty $50 consumer gear. If you're #1 or #3, you're going to need to fix that before long anyway, and even if you're #2, that's not applicable to your office network! Hardware just isn't a good excuse for not turning on IPv6.
danyork 12y ago
Yes, that's pretty much been my assumption. Perhaps you might also be watching longer videos on YouTube from home or using more Google services from home - but I think it does have more to do with residential adoption.

There's a pretty massive bump in IPv6 usage on weekends. I'm assuming this is likely due to residential / mobile IPv6 adoption being higher than commercial adoption?

X-Istence 12y ago

Even if it is available a lot of companies just don't have the experience with IPv6 and are hesitant to turn it on. Which BTW sucks when you are trying to test your product on IPv6.

pling 12y ago
This is our problem. People just don't understand it in the operations team. Our devops guys know it inside out but they have to use the services the operations team hand out which means v4 and shitty hardware. Yes corporate structure sucks. The silly thing is that there are several NATs and brick walls in the company which wouldn't need to exist with v6. I myself am v6 end to end at home. Linode at the head end and Andrews and Arnold at the bottom end.
- mikevm 12y ago
  Does your ISP actually assign you multiple Internet addresses for every device in your home or do you still use NAT? If you still use NAT, what the heck is the point in using IPv6 at home?
  - rjsw 12y ago
    I use the same ISP, you get a /64.
  - pling 12y ago
    The router does stateless auto config so every machine in the house that does v6 has a static IP. You get a /64
    - mikevm 12y ago
      That's neat!
- X-Istence 12y ago
  I too am full IPv6 at home. Got SLAAC handing out addresses from a /64 I am assigned from my ISP. Stateful firewall on the primary gateway to the internet :-) Love IPv6!!! I am on Comcast, so I have native dual stack internet. IPv4 and IPv6.
- MatthewWilkes 12y ago
  I need to get my MyBook NAS working on IPv6 so I can disable v4 at home. I started using AA's 6464 DNS server, too, so I've got no outbound v4 at all now.
DrStalker 12y ago
You need to be able to show a business benefit before making changes like that; right now changing to ipv6 would give no benefit, require replacement of existing hardware and create additional troubleshooting load. Until that changes there won't be widespread adoption of ipv6 by businesses.
- slashCJ 12y ago
  At somepoint Congress needs to offer some small tax incentive and companies will slowly confert with that business justification. (Like the Electric Vehicle credit for network hardware - come on Cisco lobbyists get on that!) Not sure if that if that extends internationally
- nknighthb 12y ago
  > require replacement of existing hardware This is the most ridiculous excuse people use. The premise doesn't even apply except in extreme cases: 1) 10+-year-old gear. (And even then only some; I've got plenty of decade-old gear lying around that supports IPv6 just fine.) 2) Extremely demanding performance requirements (to be in this category you'd likely be spending millions every year on gear and the people to run it). 3) Shitty $50 consumer gear. If you're #1 or #3, you're going to need to fix that before long anyway, and even if you're #2, that's not applicable to your office network! Hardware just isn't a good excuse for not turning on IPv6.

danyork 12y ago

Yes, that's pretty much been my assumption. Perhaps you might also be watching longer videos on YouTube from home or using more Google services from home - but I think it does have more to do with residential adoption.