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The even bigger problem, however, is the applications that rely on IPv4. Just to take one dear to our heart the PingER archiving analysis relies on IPv4 addresses. Thus as we move to IPv6 we will need to modify PingER to accept both IPv4 and IPv6 addresses.
The US Federal government have said that Federal sites must have outward facing services (web, NFS, email etc) working with IPv6 October 2012, and inward facing services working on IPv6 by October 2014. SLAC is not a Federal site it is a contractor (Stanford) operated site. The DoE it will take a lead but that still has not defined our role at SLAC, and there is currently no IPv6 project at SLAC.
Steps
One of the first steps will be to choose a perl module to support authentication of IPv6 addresses. Examples possibly include:
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It would be good to have a test bench, e.g. an IPv6 host on which we can debug the modified applications.The US Federal government have said that Federal sites must have outward facing services (web, NFS, email etc) working with IPv6 October 2012, and inward facing services working on IPv6 by October 2014. SLAC is not a Federal site it is a contractor (Stanford) operated site. The DoE it will take a lead but that still has not defined our role at SLAC.
Converting PingER etc to IPv6 could be an interesting project for someone who wants to be in the vanguard.
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