There is no Plan B: why the IPv4-to-IPv6 transition will be ugly

[gman003-main]

[QUOTE=General Omega;25187353]So the internet might be fucked for a few days during the transition, or will it happen over a period of months/years?

Also, will it get rid of those shitty hardly seen pure html pages that look like shit? I am sick of getting them in google results.[/QUOTE]

It will be messed up for at least a few months. At the current rate of IPv4 allocation and IPv6 adoption, though, it will be messed up for years. Not for individuals, necessarily, but someone will be having trouble with this for at least the next five years.

It will not affect HTML, PHP, ASP, or any other web-page things. It will really only affect a few layers of the OSI model: layer 3 is being replaced, and elements of layers 4 may need tweaking to ensure compatibility, but everything else is fine.

[SM0K3 B4N4N4]

[QUOTE=gman003-main;25160336]Pretty much 99% of home routers can do it. The only real problem is in backbone routers and infrastructure. And people still on Windows 98.[/QUOTE]

there are people still on 98? I mean even in a 3rd world country that's sort of behind the times. I'd think most of them have at least windows 2000 or even windows xp.

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also once we switch to IPv6 we'll be set for the next couple of centuries.