IPv6 News

According to an estimate, we will run out of IP’s on the current standard, IPv4 by the end of 2010 or early 2011. This article lists out few interesting facts about IPv6 which is here to stay for many generations of internet users.

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Millions of BitTorrent users who have chosen to hide their identities through a VPN service may not be as anonymous as they would like to be. Due to a huge security flaw, those who use IPv6 in combination with a PPTP-based VPN such as Ipredator are broadcasting information linking to their real IP-address on BitTorrent.

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By 2011, all traditional IP addresses will have been used up. Potential issues with new IPv6 formatted addresses could lead to hoarding — and profiteering — off stashes of previously issued, unused IPv4 addresses.

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Comcast wants to run four IPv6 trials with real customers in the next two quarters, and is asking volunteers to sign up now.

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Atmel has launched new family of AVR wireless microcontroller devices targeting wireless applications such as ZigBee and IPv6/6LoWPAN. The ATmega128RFA1 combines Atmel’s IEEE802.15.4 2.4 GHz transceiver with picoPower AVR MCU on a single chip.

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Experts say that most U.S. organizations have hidden IPv6 traffic running across their networks, and that few network managers are equipped to see, manage or block it. Increasingly, this rogue IPv6 traffic includes attacks such as botnet command and controls.

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Yesterday, Comcast demonstrated end-to-end network readiness for the transition to IPv6 addresses during the North American Network Operators 46th (NANOG46) meeting that is being held this week in Philadelphia.

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The Transmission Project has just released version 1.50 of the well-known BitTorrent client Transmission, introducing IPv6 support as well as a host of optimizations and bug fixes. This will also be the last version to support Mac OS X 10.4 “Tiger”.

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At the RIPE meeting in Dubai two weeks ago, Google presented results from a study about how IPv6-capable “ordinary users” are. And the results are surprising. While an earlier study by Arbor Networks showed only 0.0026 percent of all traffic was IPv6 enabled, Google determined that world wide, 0.238 percent of their users’ systems have IPv6 enabled

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An unlikely combination of IPv6 and NAT experts from the IETF met in Montréal last week to figure out better ways to allow IPv6-only and IPv4-only systems to communicate with each other.

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