Stefan Winter wrote:
What capabilities there are available on the internet backbone
or what could be enabled on newer operating systems by sophisticated
end users doesn't matter much, if most of the "internet-enabled"
end user equipment, that is being sold to consumers, is still IPv4-only.
Windows 7: enabled by default. Mac OS: enabled by default. Linux:
whatever your distro does. I fail to see your point.
Windows XP: disabled by default. Has been sold on the majority of
Netbooks well into 2010, and Netbooks were 1/3rd of the PC sales.
What we desperately need is factory-enabled transparent
internetworking on all _NEW_ networking equipment and internet-enabled
gadgets and appliances. As long as IPv4 and IPv6 are seperate worlds
the hen-and-egg stalemate is going to continue. And the useful
lifetime of all brand-new IPv4-only equipment that is produced by
the electronic entertainment industry is about 5-15 years.
The main point that needs attention is router equipment, IMHO. There's a
Fritz!Box beta firmware for IPv6 right now; when it's final, pushing
that out will fix the deployment of IPv6 for most of Germany (as they
happen to be quite popular there).
IPv6-capable beta firmwares for Fritz DSL-routers exist only for the
two most recent models 7390 and 7270(v?). Other models (like the 7112/7113)
or 7170, 7150) do *NOT* have sufficient resources to run IPv6 -- their
flash memory is close to full as well as their RAM when they're running.
-Martin
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