IPB182 - IPv6 Transition Technology Options

Transition technologies surrounding IPv6 can be a tad bit overwhelming in their subtle nuance. Keeping up with the differences is no easy task. Today’s show provides some education and advice about IPv6 transition mechanisms. We cover options such as NAT64, DNS64, PREF64, and more, as well as use cases. Also, if your technology vendors aren’t offering some of these mechanisms, ask for them – you’re probably not the only one who has an IPv6 transition project.

IPv6 Statistics

Over the years one of the most common responses received when asking “does your $widget support IPv6?” is “well, no one has asked for it”, or “no one actually uses IPv6”. To myself and others that have been actually using IPv6 for well over 20 years, this is a tired, uninformed, and overall dull response to a legitimate feature question. Over the last 4 years, and likely due to the explosion of IPv6 deployments, this has become significantly less common of a reply.

IPB181 - Answering Your IPv6 Questions

So many great questions! You’ve sent in questions and on this IPv6 Buzz episode Ed, Nick, and Tom answer them. Questions include using DHCPv6 versus SLAAC in a home network, IPv6 and email services, a NAT66 recap, and more. Stay tuned for full episodes coming up that cover Path MTU discovery and IPv6 and containers. Listen here: Episode Links: Google IPv6 Statistics My Updated Fiber7-X VyOS 1.5 Config – John Howard’s blog