Why Use IPv6?
IPv6 is great from many standpoints, but odds are you’re not using it. The transition from IPv4 has been, and still is, a slow and somewhat painful process. IPv4 works pretty well right now, and many are reluctant to go through the effort of migration until absolutely forced to. (To many, running out of IPv4 addresses is the only thing that will force them to migrate.) There are still some open issues with IPv6. So why bother with it? First of all, if no one bothers, then migration slows to an obvious halt. Many want early experience before they are forced into using it because they have run out of IPs. Some of us just want to play with cool new technology. And some might just want to see the dancing kame at www.kame.net! (A dancing turtle that only dances when viewed via IPv6.) On the plus side, many applications now support IPv6. From the standard ping and traceroute utilities (called ping6 and traceroute6) to OpenSSH, Apache, and Mozilla. So if you try it out, you’ll have all the to
