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Title: Looking Into The Future
Post by: HaXtOr on May 08, 2006, 06:19:36 PM

Internet running out of ip v4 addressed (http://www.itnews.com.au/newsstory.aspx?CIaNID=32318)


after reading this article and being stuck in my network class from 5:30 pm to 9 pm

will op2 be compatible with ip v6? how can we prepare for the inevitable?

Title: Looking Into The Future
Post by: TH300 on May 09, 2006, 01:01:59 AM

it doesn't have to support IPv6. All we need is a prog that tunnels IPv4 through an IPv6 connection.

Title: Looking Into The Future
Post by: lordly_dragon on May 09, 2006, 06:36:01 AM

and enyway I bet that ipv6 is for a distant futur not so near  

Title: Looking Into The Future
Post by: BlackBox on May 09, 2006, 02:33:13 PM

We probably won't see widespread use of IPv6 before 2020. It will take everyone a long time to switch.

Few ISPs and other organizations are even routing IPv6 traffic. (I know mine doesn't).
Because of this IPv6 traffic will get nowhere on the internet at this point.

(There used to be something called the 6bone which was an IPv6 test network, where people with fast servers could 'link up' to it, the traffic was IPv6 tunneled in IPv4. This has been disbanded I believe).

Also, even in Windows XP, IPv6 drivers are not installed by default.. You have to go add a new protocol and find the "IPv6 developer driver" or whatever it's called.

But yes, apps that only understand IPv4 should still work. Their traffic is tunneled thru IPv6, and the IPv4 address that the program sees / expects is really part of an IPv6 address (with some special bits to tell the system that it's a 6-to-4 tunneling address)

Programs like these already exist. There may even be kernel drivers in the works / written already that will do this.

However, by 2020, I'm certain OP2 will be rewritten and support IPv6 natively. (Well, I *want* to rewrite OP2 sometime).

Title: Looking Into The Future
Post by: Sirbomber on May 09, 2006, 02:35:32 PM

Either OP2 will be rewritten or OP3 will be out. Hopefully both.
Maybe even OP4 or OP5! You never know!

Title: Looking Into The Future
Post by: dm-horus on May 10, 2006, 01:11:50 AM

somehow i doubt anyone will still care about op2 by then :P

the best we can hope for is that someone brings a sniper rifle up into a clock tower across from whatever company still has rights to op2 and takes em all out. the press coverage alone would guarantee a sequel!!!

you up for it moogle?

Title: Looking Into The Future
Post by: lordly_dragon on May 10, 2006, 06:33:15 AM

laugh horus =) moogle is not a S.K.  :lol: