Complete noob here sorry if this is an easy question.
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@akegec said in Complete noob here sorry if this is an easy question.:
So you wonder when I will use IPv6 for my clients?
Several years ago, your clients would likely be running IPX, yet I bet they've probably moved to IP by now.
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IPX was not something that could have ever scaled to what is now the internet ;)
So yeah if you wanted to be on the "internet" you had to use tcp/ip.. While not an overall bad example of transition to a new protocol for communication.
It fails in that to use xyz you needed to use IP. With ipv4 vs ipv6 - I can still use xyz, without having to use ipv6.. When I can not get to xyz without ipv6 is when you will see the migration accelerate.
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At the time, IPX was used in businesses and connected offices within an organization. However, there was initially no concept of an "Internet". Also, when Vint Cerf came up with IPv4, his intent that it was only an experiment to demonstrate the concept and the final version would have a larger address space. Unfortunately, IPv4 "escaped". There were other routeable protocols, such as DECNet, SNA and Appletalk, too.
BTW, the idea of connected networks goes back long before IP. Many years ago, I used to work on a network in the Air Canada reservation system. This network was created by (Rockwell) Collins, for use with their computers. Instead of packets, it used time slots (TDM). The idea was several of these networks could be interconnected, in the way IP did later. I first worked on the network in 1978, but it had been around for a few years before that.
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We also bring a lot of knowledge, based on experience. For example, I'm probably the only one here who has actually hand wired an Ethernet controller. I don't know how many others who have worked with 10base5 "Thicknet" and DECNet or SNA & token ring, as I have.
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@jknott there is one Asian saying that I know from former colleague. "Like rice paddy, the more contains they have, the more they bow."
