Hello Dan!
02 Jan 23 08:38, Dan Clough wrote to Michiel van der Vlist:
DC> But.... what does that tunnel, or IPv6 in general, offer me that I
DC> don't
DC> already have? I have excellent internet access without it. It won't give
DC> me any more speed or bandwidth. So why do I need it?
DC> I know.... eventually.... yeah. But until then, assuming that ever
DC> even
DC> actually happens, it's not needed.
This is probably very dependent on where you live, and what your IP-connections
look like. And what you want your computers to be able to do or connect to. Just
a few words about this from this neck of the wood:
I have subscribed for FTTH lately. This is something you definitely want if you
live around here, because the alternative is continuing to use DSL over the
existing copper telephone lines. It does 100MBit for me now and could probably
do 150MBit or so, but it's definitely not future-proof.
It will certainly take a few months (maybe even one or two years) until FTTH
materialises. Living in a rural area, there will be only one company offering
this due to the rather high investment involved (digging fibres into the ground,
making new connections to all houses etc.). The company doing this here (funny
enough, it's a Dutch company) will only offer a so-called DS-lite stack to
private customers, basically meaning you get an IPv6 address and automatic
tunneling magic to reach any IPv4 address around the world. You will also be
able to offer services (like binkd) on your IPv6 address, but without any
further intervention this will be unreachable for other people running just from
an IPv4 address.
Most people probably won't care much, because they don't offer any services from
their homes. However, FTN nodes need exactly this. So, depending on what other
systems I want to connect to my FTN system, I'll have to check in advance that
they can access IPv6 addresses, or I'll have to think about getting an extra
tunnel or portmapping tool running to provide IPv4 accessability. It's a bit
like in the old POTS days when you knew that some people had a certain brand of
modem (or a certain firmware installed) that would be incompatible with other
systems.
Does this all matter to you? Well, this totally depends on which systems you
want to connect to. The more systems out there only offer IPv6, the smaller your
world will become.
Regards,
Gerrit
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