UPC will start shortly ipv6-test with small group of customers

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UPC start in the short term, a trial with a limited group of customers, ipv6 is going to test. The participants will receive a dual-stack liteversion of ipv6, which, in addition to a number of full-ipv6-addresses for each user, a group, collectively, an ipv4-address sharing by nat.

The enrollment for the trial began earlier this week via the Chelloo-forum. Meanwhile, the UPC, the tender closed and the kabelaar promises within a week of the applicants to let them know or they can take part in the trial with ipv6. Only UPC customers with a connection to the internet 50, 120, or 200Mbit/s could sign up.

According to UPC get testers include a dual-stack lite implementation of the ipv6 protocol. In addition to a number of private ipv6 addresses should participants an ipv4 address via network address translation to share. It uses so-called aftr routers on the UPC network.

Participants in the trial should take into account some limitations because they do not own public ipv4 address. So port forwarding is no longer possible, while the cable modem is not in bridge mode can be set. It also sets up the UPC that testers are advised to paired devices, a good firewall to install, because with ipv6, direct links to be established. How many participants were in the trial to participate, could be a UPC spokesperson Friday, don’t tell.” Also, it is still unknown when the public rollout of ipv6 will take place. Ziggo has also for private customers is still no time frame announced for the migration to ipv6.

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