Internode has become the first Australian ISP to provide IPv6 to its customers, after the telco announced customers would be provided with an opt-in clause in their contracts, which will  provide a ‘gobsmackingly large address space’ for its users after the roll-out of the 128-bit protocol system.

 

"Internode has made sure our customers won't be disadvantaged by this large, significant change 'under the hood' of the Internet. We’ve been deploying and testing IPv6 since 2008 and our experience with it is now unrivalled in Australia. We have also worked with many major router vendors to ensure that, at this point, all the routers sold by Internode now support native dual stack IPv6,” Internode managing director Simon Hackett said.

 

Internode will provide a /56 static IPv6 assignment, allowing 256 LAN segments, to any customer as a matter of course. If a business network administrator wants a larger /48 prefix assignment instead (allowing 65,536 LAN segments), they simply need to justify that requirement to Internode in order to be allocated that larger prefix.

 

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