I wionder when Elite: Dangerous will accommodate IPv6 addresses....

Bran Tse Mallory

Bran Tse Mallory
Robert Maynard said:
I tripped over this article: http://arstechnica.co.uk/informatio...subscribers-onto-ipv6-network-by-summer-2016/

It seems that the UK broadband infrastructure will be IPv6 ready by the end of next year (probably). It would be interesting to hear what Frontier's plans for accommodating IPv6 network addressing is (as IPv4 addresses seem to be running out).
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The article ends with a good laugh... "Wide scale consumer adoption". Most internet users will not even know that they have been switched over! :D

As for FD, they have to do nothing as it will all be done by the ISP's and network switching, It's the only way it can be done as IP4 will die about as quickly as Morse code.
 

shadragon

shadragon
Most of the world already supports IPv6. RFC 2460 has been around since the late 90's and has been incorporated into most modern routers and switches of the major vendors.

We turn IPv6 off in our network. Properly managing IPv4 through NAT gives us all the IP's we could ever need.

Frontiers current networking is unusually efficient and going to IPv6 would probably hurt that.
 

Robert Maynard

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Robert Maynard
Bran Tse Mallory said:
The article ends with a good laugh... "Wide scale consumer adoption". Most internet users will not even know that they have been switched over! :D

As for FD, they have to do nothing as it will all be done by the ISP's and network switching, It's the only way it can be done as IP4 will die about as quickly as Morse code.
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I did see one article talking about IPv6's 20th birthday - it doesn't seem to be a fast adopted standard....
 

TheDayman

TheDayman
We're already starting to use IPv6 here in the US. My AT&T services uses dual stack IPv4 and IPv6 and the company I work for sells a lot of dual stacks.
 

Cynaqq

Cynaqq
shadragon said:
Frontiers current networking is unusually efficient and going to IPv6 would probably hurt that.
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This statement will create a lot of confusion here on the forums. Everyone will wonder 'if this is it being efficient, I wonder what would happen if it wasn't!'. :D
 

shadragon

shadragon
Cynaqq said:
This statement will create a lot of confusion here on the forums. Everyone will wonder 'if this is it being efficient, I wonder what would happen if it wasn't!'. :D
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That's unsurprising. Any comment on the boards usually results in confusion for some people.

Hit CTRL + B when playing Elite to see the network traffic.
 

furrycat

furrycat
Last I looked, which was admittedly some months ago, EC2 instances on AWS still didn't support IPv6. That being the case the game would be unlikely to support it any time soon.

That's too bad. IPv6 is the future and more and more stuff Just Works. My home network has been completely IPv6 enabled for some years now and I honestly can't remember the last time it caused me any problems.
 

Wizz15

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furrycat said:
Last I looked, which was admittedly some months ago, EC2 instances on AWS still didn't support IPv6. That being the case the game would be unlikely to support it any time soon.
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EC2 I'm not sure about, but the ELBs we have are all dual-stack (Ireland region). So if you put a load-balancer with IPV6 in front of your instances, the instances themselves can still use IPv4 for 'internal' communication. Our instances are not publicly visible anyway, only the load-balancers are.

With VPC you even have your own private subnet, so all the IPs you could possibly need. In this scenario only the load-balancers need to be IPv6, internal network does not matter.

On topic: if FD uses AWS' load-balancers, they already support IPv6. It depends on the client if you connect through IPv4 or IPv6 in that case. My current cable provider does not support IPv6 yet, but IPv6 is certainly not uncommon in my area.
 
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marnikos

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FD has nothing to do with implementing IPv6 in the networks or to systems connecting to the Internet, it's not their job. Even Amazon data centers and their corresponding Internet access systems I suppose that they are still IPv4. It's up to the Internet providers to provide the IPv6 translation. For many years to come all users and including companies like FD, will stay to IPv4 . Thus the various ISPs will use some kind of NAT translation to transfer data through the various backbones. Most Internet backbones and Internet Exchange Hubs are switching already.
 
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