[GRLUG] AFTR - an ISC IPv6 transition tool

[Bob Kline]

Someone mentioned that recent distributions
come with IPv6 enabled.  How might one verify
that it is enabled?

    -- Bob


On Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 2:09 PM, Adam Tauno Williams <awilliam at whitemice.org
> wrote:

> On Sat, 2011-01-15 at 13:06 -0500, Michael Mol wrote:
> > http://www.isc.org/software/aftr
> > It sounds like a tool intended to allow IPv6-only client nodes to
> > access IPv4-only content providers over an IPv6 network.
> > Here's what I find *particularly* interesting. They credit Comcast as
> > a co-developer partner. The implication is that America's largest
> > broadband provider is researching giving their end-users native IPv6
> > functionality.
>
> I've talked to Comcast customers who indicated they *have* [currently]
> IPv6 connectivity.    Suddenly IPv6 enabled hosts [LINUX, Windows
> Vista/7] suddenly acquire routable IPv6 addresses (the cable models run
> an IPv6 router address discovery service [radvd]).
>
> Also IPv6 is included in recent versions of DOCSIS [3.0?] so all current
> cable modems support it.  IPv6 support has been available as an
> extension to DOCSIS 2.0 for some time.
>
> Several carriers have adopted IPv6 on their backbone even if they don't
> yet open it up to their customers for management purposes [IPv6 is
> easier to administer at-scale than IPv4].  In that case something like
> AFTR makes a great deal of sense.
>
> As an aside, the IPv4 address space exists as a section of the IPv6
> address space; so IPv4 addresses have been reachable from IPv6 since day
> one.  Either via ::ffff:0:0/96 or 2002::/16 (although, of course, the
> devil is in the details).
>
>
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