“The next-generation protocol, Internet Protocol version 6, is becoming widely accepted as the future of the Internet and networking world. This acceptance has encouraged various IT companies to develop applications that support and talk with each other through the IPv6 address format. In this article, learn to configure the File Transfer Protocol server for IPv6, and to communicate with FTP servers through a simple Java program that uses the IPv6 address.”
“The next-generation protocol, Internet Protocol version 6, is becoming widely accepted as the future of the Internet and networking world.”
Everyone I know is using IPV4. Maybe there is higher acceptance for backbone type links, but it’s not being used by consumers.
I was about to say the same thing; the article might be interesting, but that opener makes me doubtfull it has actual contents instead of vacuous statements. IPv6 has had 10 years to become a standard. Someone dropped a ball somewhere.
BTW, the article is actually an interesting read.
cisco dropped the ball, or more correctly, took the ball and went home.
most of the backbones out there are powered by cisco equipment. problem is that they need a hardware upgrade to handle IPv6. see the problem?
ok, they can do IPv6 in software, but its, from what i understand, much slower then IPv4 in hardware.
I wouldn’t blame cisco. If it were sufficient demand they would have implemented ipv6 efficiently. if not, juniper would. at some point I was working for tier-1 isp and had some direct contacts with cisco, so my impression was that they try to stay competitive.
true, i missaimed that one.
still, with no simple upgrade route for existing equipment, things become a chicken and egg thing…
is older than many of the people posting here.
The next-generation protocol is older than many of the people posting here.
I don’t think most of the people here are younger than 14..
I don’t think “many” and “most” mean the same thing…
“Someone dropped a ball somewhere.”
Yep, the U.S dropped the ball. IPv6 is seeing increased deployment in both Asia and Europe while the U.S is seriously lagging.
Not that I think “Configuring FTP servers for IPv6” is a topic worthy of a newsitem but then again, the article is more about using IPv6 in Java than it is about configuring FTP servers.
“ok, they can do IPv6 in software, but its, from what i understand, much slower then IPv4 in hardware.”
You are wrong. I also like this myth about Cisco’s great performance since they do stuff “in hardware” but that’s a topic for another day.