Got your IP addresses?

willbon · May 12, 2010

So we're running out of IP addresses!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/10105978.stm

Is there value in getting allocated an IP address in the near future?.. and do you think they they will be traded?

... or do you think that IPv6 will be the simple solution?

jimm · May 12, 2010

Unless you want to become a LIR you will get no benefit and even then you have to be able to justify addresses and prove you are using them and run your network (which aint cheap).

No IP addresses wont be traded by the little people and the big players wont want to give up their allocation.

IPv6 is the future. Alas it is not being taken on board very fast though. I suspect we will see CGN before IPv6.

monaghan · May 12, 2010

As per the last reply, IPv6 is the way forward, but it is slow in arriving, people are hanging on to IPv4, for the majority of people they wouldn't know the difference between IPX, TCP/IP or any other network protocol as this is all hidden by the OS these days so I guess it is the technical people holding it up (or the finance for the technical guys to implement)

I looked at IPv6 many years ago (it was IPng then), but we're not much further forward in public usage terms than back in those days.

tifosi · May 12, 2010

When virtually every piece of electronic equipment is demanding some kind of online connection... which isn't far off in the future, and in many cases the present, then ipv6 will be a necessity.

As they say necessity is the mother of invention. The inventing bit is already done... most web server technology has it built in. Now is the necessity bit.

I suspect by the time of the olympics ipv6 will be mainstream. Or we'll all be watching it on 1 b&w tv in the corner of a room! Not.

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retired_member32 · May 12, 2010

monaghan said:
As per the last reply, IPv6 is the way forward, but it is slow in arriving, people are hanging on to IPv4, for the majority of people they wouldn't know the difference between IPX, TCP/IP or any other network protocol as this is all hidden by the OS these days so I guess it is the technical people holding it up (or the finance for the technical guys to implement)

I looked at IPv6 many years ago (it was IPng then), but we're not much further forward in public usage terms than back in those days.

"pardon"

that has just about frazzled by brain cells.....ipv6,ipx,tcp/ip,fbi,b&q....