It probably went quietly unnoticed by most Mac NOCs, netadmins and
sysadmins but considering how the future was yesterday wrt IPv6 in OS
X the topic is relevant and everyone should begin to consider how
they can already deploy IPv6 in your existing Mac environments.
Basically a few weeks ago ARIN resolved that they had run out of the
IPv4 address space they were handing out ("take any and all measures
necessary to assure veracity of applications to ARIN for IPv4
numbering resources") and that IPv6 was the all they wanted to hand
out now ("encourage migration to IPv6 numbering resources where
possible.") The upshot was that by 2010 or so the IPv4 space would be
"gone" (1).
Mac OS X and it's apps, unlike some other OSen and apps, are already
IPv6 compliant. In fact IPv4 is more or less spoofed in OS X under
IPv6 and OS X prefers IPv6 in operations.
What all this means is that responsible Mac Network Managers and
Systems Managers should begin IPv6 adoption plans if you haven't
already.
For all you "NAT is soo secure I need to NAT" and "NAT is all we
need" folks please take the time and read the following RFC that the
IETF has carefully put together to address all those arguments.
For those of you who don't believe IPv6 will ever get off the ground...
"On Thursday, 29 March 2007, a Cisco Systems router, flying
in low Earth Orbit onboard the UK-DMC satellite built by
Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL), was successfully
configured by NASA Glenn Research Center to use IPsec and
IPv6 technologies in space."
(1) by which it was meant that the remaining 48 blocks of IPv4
addresses would be used up.
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Dan Shoop AIM: iWiring
Systems & Networks Architect http://www.ustsvs.com/
email@hidden http://www.iwiring.net/
1-714-363-1174
_______________________________________________
Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored.
Macos-x-server mailing list (email@hidden)
Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription:
http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/macos-x-server/email@hidden
