2011-02-03

No more IPv4

Just a few minutes ago today at 14:30 IANA ceremonially handed over the last blocks of IPv4 addresses to the five regional registries.

It is down hill from now on.

I am pleased to say that we (AAISP) are ordering our first batch of IPv6 ADSL routers today, and expect to be supplying to customers in a couple of weeks.

(The Chinese New Year had delayed things slightly)

P.S. do listen to The day the routers died
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9 comments:

  1. AnonymousThursday, 3 February 2011 at 15:03:00 GMT

    Yay.. ipv6 routers.

    Do they work? :p

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  2. JasonThursday, 3 February 2011 at 15:08:00 GMT

    Damn! Ordered my new ADSL Line at the office too early... Provision date is 16th, would I be able to get one of these IPv6 ones? :-)

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  3. RevKThursday, 3 February 2011 at 15:23:00 GMT

    Lets get them in and re-test things first. These are the ones that have WiFi and stuff, so normally sold for more.

    I expect we'll put on sale initially, but I am pondering doing a special offer with them being the "Free with new orders" router for a limited time.

    Such offers are always tricky though...

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  4. Andrew BowerThursday, 3 February 2011 at 17:26:00 GMT

    When will you be providing IPv6 on your data only mobile SIMs? It's the only reason I got one...

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  5. RevKThursday, 3 February 2011 at 17:31:00 GMT

    Soon as we can

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  6. AnonymousThursday, 3 February 2011 at 20:33:00 GMT

    These new routers will still work with internetClassic (™) ?

    ;-)

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  7. Pete FavelleFriday, 4 February 2011 at 09:04:00 GMT

    Do they do a plain, non-"WiFi and stuff" version like the old Zyxels?

    Half-way through rearranging my network and could do with a cheap and cheerful IPv6-capable modem!

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  8. RevKFriday, 4 February 2011 at 11:14:00 GMT

    It seems that for all the manufacturers the cheaper routers are coming along later. We are chasing that.

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  9. Dan WhiteFriday, 4 February 2011 at 17:30:00 GMT

    "I came here to kick ass and assign IPv4 addresses. And I'm all out of IPv4 addresses."

    :) (For those that don't know, it's a modification of classic quote from "They Live".)

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