-=> Gerrit Kuehn wrote to Dan Clough <=-
GK> 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
DC> give 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.
GK> This is probably very dependent on where you live, and what your
GK> IP-connections look like. And what you want your computers to be
GK> able to do or connect to. Just a few words about this from this
GK> neck of the wood: I have subscribed for FTTH lately. This is
GK> something you definitely want if you live around here, because
GK> the alternative is continuing to use DSL over the existing copper telephone
GK> lines. It does 100MBit for me now and could probably do
GK> 150MBit or so, but it's definitely not future-proof. It will
GK> certainly take a few months (maybe even one or two years) until
GK> FTTH materialises. Living in a rural area, there will be only one
GK> company offering this due to the rather high investment involved
GK> (digging fibres into the ground, making new connections to all
GK> houses etc.). The company doing this here (funny enough, it's a
GK> Dutch company) will only offer a so-called DS-lite stack to
GK> private customers, basically meaning you get an IPv6 address and
GK> automatic tunneling magic to reach any IPv4 address around the
GK> world. You will also be able to offer services (like binkd) on
GK> your IPv6 address, but without any further intervention this will
GK> be unreachable for other people running just from an IPv4
GK> address.
GK> Most people probably won't care much, because they don't offer
GK> any services from their homes. However, FTN nodes need exactly
GK> this. So, depending on what other systems I want to connect to my
GK> FTN system, I'll have to check in advance that they can access
GK> IPv6 addresses, or I'll have to think about getting an extra
GK> tunnel or portmapping tool running to provide IPv4 accessability.
GK> It's a bit like in the old POTS days when you knew that some
GK> people had a certain brand of modem (or a certain firmware
GK> installed) that would be incompatible with other systems.
GK> Does this all matter to you? Well, this totally depends on which
GK> systems you want to connect to. The more systems out there only
GK> offer IPv6, the smaller your world will become.
Very good points, some of which I hadn't thought much about. Thanks for
the info, and for a civilized reply, which is becoming a rarity here in
this echo.
Just for the fanatics in the crowd, try to understand that I have
nothing *AGAINST* IPv6, but am not rushing around to get it via some half-assed
"tunnel" just because some of you think it's cool. If/when
my ISP offers that service, I'll take advantage of it. Until then, I'm
not gonna worry about it.
... Nothing is so smiple that it can't get screwed up.
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