Re: IPv6 (was: on WEB400 list)

[Mike Wills <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Google, Facebook and another large website is doing a big switch to IP V6
here soon (for one day). Apparently it is possible, but I would hire some
sort of expert to make sure that you do it right. I would say internally,
unless you have some requirement that you aren't saying, stick with IP V4.

--
Mike Wills
http://mikewills.me


On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 1:07 PM, Chris Bipes <chris.bipes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> We are getting ready to move down the road a few miles, to the next
> city.  Anyhow I was thinking of changing to IP V6 at that time.  We are
> purchasing new routers and switches for the move.  They should all
> handle IP V6.  Our iSeries are at V5R4 and V6R1.  Our windows domain is
> 2003 with a couple of 2000 servers and a couple of 2008 servers.
>
> My question is this, Does the internet support IP V6 yet?  Can our
> customer still get to us if we start using IP V6 addresses?  Or does our
> firewall have to NAT IP V4 to V6?
>
> Is it worth it?  Oh and our in house programs will not support the V6
> addressing at this time.
>
> --
> Chris Bipes
> Director of Information Services
> CrossCheck, Inc.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> Subject: Re: IPv6 (was: on WEB400 list)
>
> Sometimes it's the littlest things that trip you.  Just last week a .cmd
>
> file that I use for Lotus Smart Upgrade was causing me grief.  In
> Windows
> 7 (to enable IPv6) they replaced the output of IPCONFIG from IP Address
> to
> IPv4 Address.  Piping using output is never as good as APIs (as I found
> out a decade or more on the i).
>
> We also have one lpar feeding our DMZ.  Actually using the DNS on the i
> and all.  I suspect that one will get hit by IP6 at some time.  But our
> network admin generally agrees that internally IPv4 should be
> sufficient.
>
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