<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On 21/01/2010, at 2:21 PM, Mark Smith wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite"><div><blockquote type="cite"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><br></font></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><br>Which particular ones / equipment? Networking gear (i.e. routers mainly)<br>generally supports it and has done so for quite a while, as have most<br>end-user OSes.<br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Support at some level. There's a lot of fairly strange holes.</div><div><br></div><div>But productionising it is harder. It's very easy to find holes in "support" as well as bugs. Too easy. </div><div><br></div><div>eg. On any Cisco platform try finding the status of an IPv6 BGP neighbor via SNMP.</div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div><br>If you're talking about things like load balancers, I don't necessarily<br>think that needs to be a show stopper. The early volumes of IPv6 traffic<br>is going to be no where near that of IPv4, so I doubt the initial load<br>is going to be significant enough that solutions like load balancers<br>are required. I'd think deploying an IPv6 to IPv4 reverse proxy would be<br>a fairly simple, quick and fairly way to get content available over<br>IPv6.<br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Sure - but ultimately you then have hacks which are messy. Really proper support is key otherwise you can't produce the systems that are as reliable as IPv4. 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