What is your plan/roadmap for IPv6?

[quux]

Untangle looks like a nice product, but one thing I'm seriously on the lookout for, these days, is the ability to start the IPv6 migration.

What if any plans do the Untangle folks have in this area?

[dmorris]

hey quux,

we've discussed it some - but currently there are no solid plans to implement it on the roadmap. it seems that ipv6 is becoming a little more mainstream so it probably warrants a better look.

[quux]

Thanks for the reply dmorris.

I've been following the IPV6 stuff kind of lackadaisically for awhile, but in the past few months I've been starting to see that it's going to be a Really Big Deal within the next few years. The current predictions are that we'll be functionally out of IPv4 addresses sometime in 2010 (http://www.potaroo.net/tools/ipv4/index.html)! It may take longer, or it may happen sooner, but with that date three years away, I guess to sooner people have real IPv6 solutions available, the more marketable their products will be in both the short and long run.

[dmorris]

"This particular model predicts that the use of the unadvertised address pool to sustain further growth on the IPv4 public Internet may provide addresses to meet demands until 02-Apr-2018."

;)

[quux]

See the very top of the report:

Projected IANA Unallocated Address Pool Exhaustion: 26-Aug-2010

Projected RIR Unallocated Address Pool Exhaustion: 26-Jun-2011

Note that the 'unadvertised pool' they are talking about are address ranges given to entities, but not advertized on the internet. As an example, IBM has the entire 9.x.x.x range. A portion of that is used internally only (where it's known as the 'Power 9'). Bringing it back into public use would require 1) a lot of goodwill on IBM's part and 2) a lot of work by them!

I have no idea what's the deal with the other 'assigned but not advertised on public internet' address ranges. But I can't imagine many companies just giving those addresses back out of the goodness of their hearts.

Sooo ... for these ranges to come back into play, we'd probably see some sort of auction system, which would help somewhat, but would still give a lot of orgs a darn good incentive to go IPv6. Simple supply and demand stuff.

It's possible they'll pull some rabbit out of the hat and stave it off in various ways. But we'll be seeing a lot more demand for IPv6 either way, because IPv4 exhaustion is inevitable.

:eek:

[MacMan]

I too am interested in IPv6 support. Does anyone know when it will be supported by Untangle ? ?

[MacMan]

I have requested this feature via Bugzilla

Enhancement Request
Bugzilla – Bug 4016