Sky Launch of IPv6: When?

[coipu]

ipv6 will just lead to slew of security problems as gear is enabled then patched, not sure about it at all, but it's coming so thank gawd I have my own configurable router instead of the sr.

[Scubbie]

ipv6 will just lead to slew of security problems as gear is enabled then patched, not sure about it at all, but it's coming so thank gawd I have my own configurable router instead of the sr.

I'm not sure how you've come to this conclusion.

IPv6 has been in use for a few years already. Many other people out there will have already found such issues and they should have already been resolved.

Of course not everyone updates the firmwares on their devices. Other devices will no longer be supported and will be defunct.

[coipu]

exactly my point, so many routers (especially small business) are well past eol as well as so many connected things. It would be nothing short of a miracle to make a seamless transition without problems cropping up. Time will tell I guess.

[Scubbie]

Ok, whilst there are a whole raft of different routers out there, Sky are only going to be interested in their own customer base.

Most of Sky's customers use the Sky router that they were supplied. Since Sky doesn't provide a service intended for the business market, that'll be someone else's problem to resolve. I appreciate that many small businesses will have someone with limited knowledge when it comes to updating routers, but I would hope that they would be able to contact their ISP and some how manage to get it updated before IPv4 is switched off.

From what I understand there will be a period with Sky where people might have either IPv4 or IPv6 addresses. Since it is possible for Sky to identify which models are on which connection, anyone whom is using a router that is incompatible with IPv6 might be informed that something needs to be done.

Sky's practise with firmware updates has always been to roll out the update in a gradual manner. I would imagine that the same would be the case with the switch from IPv4 to IPv6.

[gorebrush]

The problem is of course that we spent many many years trying to shoehorn as much as we could into the IPv4 space with NAT, there just hasn't been the rush to IPv6 as was first envisaged when the protocol was designed back in... wait for it... 1991.

That was when the first realisation that we would one day completely exhaust the IPv4 pool would occur, and in the next few weeks it will be empty.

Should you care? As a consumer - probably not. Routers can handle NAT and they should also be able to tunnel IPv4 over the IPv6 internet so old devices shouldn't be left out in the cold anyways.

I would love to see IPv6 adopted more quickly - it is now the next big thing that needs to happen to the internet. The big problem of course when IPv4 blocks were handed out back in the beginning - they were handing out /8's and /16's to Universities willy nilly and there are vast amounts of addresses that are probably unused even today.

Wonder how it will affect those of us who have non-Sky routers? Though hopefully they are using standard methods to roll out addresses and we'll just pick it up as normal.

Source: I'm a CCIE

[lettice]

Looks like BT are up to something too
BT runs trial of IPv6 addressing system - BBC News

[Scubbie]

Ok, this thread was created as a little bit of a laugh, but also to see what people actually thought with regards to when Sky would launch IPv6.

Date	Voters	Percentile
Jul-15	1	5.88%
Aug-15	0	0%
Sep-15	1	5.88%
Oct-15	2	11.76%
Nov-15	0	0%
Dec-15	0	0%
1st Quarter 2016	4	23.53%
2nd Quarter 2016	0	0%
3rd Quarter 2016 or later	0	0%
Don't care	9	52.94%
Total voters	17

Ok, not a high turn out, but of those who voted I guess it shows that currently most people aren't interested in IPv6 or that they aren't worried about when Sky will switch across to it.

Of course we now have a new section on these forums where members can find out more. So please do pop in and take a look. This change just might be of interest to you.

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