[members-discuss] why is it proving impossible to gain IP sapce

ofcourse every access provider could ditch ipv4 -right now- with the 
following mechanism:


1: take a /96 of your own ipv6 space

2: translate this 1:1 to the entire ipv4 address space
(dos boxes with packet driver and some assembly/c code, modified linux 
kernel, programmable logic arrays in a hardware implementation, whatever)

(ask any dude with experience in kernel/assembly programming in your 
company to code that stuff, its not that hard, normal LACP/803ad over 8 or 
so of these "bridges/translators" should spread the load just fine if it 
needs to be more than 1 or 10ge in one go ;)

(as the mtu of ipv6 is 1280, ofcourse the tcpmss should be adjusted and DF 
cleared incoming and outgoing on the ipv4 end ;)

3: code a dns resolver that translates the A requests into AAAA answers
(and passes on the AAAA requests unmodified to a normal one ;)

4: ???

5: profit!

only thing that won't work are protocols that don't support ipv6 because 
they are a seperate program that didn't implement it yet.

so if you REALLY cannot get ipv4 anymore and need space for your customers 
and still want to give them the full internet, this is the way to go ;)

if you're going to NAT them anyway, you might as well NAT them from ipv6 
to the old ipv4 stuff (instead of ipv4->ipv4 ;)

i don't see any out of the box solutions on the market, specificially for 
the "dns part" tho.


for content providers, indeed, the loadbalancers should be able to deal 
with the "gatewaying" part just fine, nothing to change there on the 
actual servers.

it's not exactly rocket science ppl, get on with it.

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On Thu, 16 Feb 2012, Brandon Butterworth wrote:

>> Google: chinese olympics ipv6
>
> google UK olympics ipv6
>
>> Happened in 2008 nuff said
>
> not happening in 2012, really lame (not just BBC site)
>
>> Every large site today being served by load balancers today can turn on ipv6
>
> I know, we can, I had it running for v6 day. If we'd started a year ago
> it could have been in the plan for this June but Vint said 2013 and no
> other announcements were made until Jan. Too late, ops had already
> decided making it production wasn't high enough up their list until of
> stuff that really must work for the Olympics.
>
> Tough, would have been good to do.
>
> brandon
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