[NBLUG/talk] What's the status of IPV6?

[Michael Long]

> On May 6, 2015, at 9:34 AM, Omar Eljumaily <omar at omnicode.com> wrote:
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> This is a kind of followup to a thread about VPNs and SSH tunnels. I needed to tunnel into an environmental monitoring device, but it turns out that it's much simpler to get a static IP address from the 4g carrier.
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> It seems that the 4g carrier, Verizon, uses ipv6 for all its internal networking.  Google even displays a public ipv6 address when you query for IP Address.    However, the IPV6 address can't be used to access our device over the internet.

Yep. I’d be curious to know wha your ipv6 address is. Most likely it’s 6rd.

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> Will the idea that IPV6 will be used for billions of public IP addresses and devices ever happen?  It seems like its adoption is slow.  There are better ways to deal with certain aspects of the address pool problem, like encrypted tunnels to and from private networks, but sometimes a unique public address is necessary.

It’s slow in the US but it is happening. Faster in other parts of the world because they don’t have the v4 space US companies have. It’s widely known that content providers have been using v6 for awhile for their internal communications. I’ve been running v6 on routers since 2001 (probably before that) and I see about 100G of pure v6 traffic on my network.  I’m not sure what your question is but I can definitely say ipv6 is alive and well and moving upwards.

Mike