IPv6

[Robert Olson]

At 05:07 PM 4/13/2004, Caren Litvanyi wrote:
>The 2621 will do v6.  I'd need to compare its performance capabilities
>with your needed average packet-per-second rate, though.  I bet it
>is not able to handle much, but I am not sure.
>The question is, who do you want to talk to?  If you literally only
>want *within* a lab, no router is needed.  We create a vlan for you,
>and you play in that isolated vlan sandbox.  The switches won't care.
>When you want to test v6 AG (or any other app), with another site,
>well, then we have some planning and work to do.  Getting from here
>to there is what requires infrastructure upgrades, or, for the short-
>term, engineering around the problem in one of several ways.
>Also, don't forget infrastructure issues like supporting v6 in DNS.


The first step would be to be able to talk v6 between a set of hosts 
locally, and unicast v6 to hosts externally.

I wonder how painful it is to use v6 without DNS..

--bob