Leaving apart the ever(never?) exhausting address space of IPV4, One area that I can think of where use of IPV6 might prove useful is Interconnect Traffic: With ever growing data and network traffic, it wouldn't be long when the need for transferring of larger packets over cluster interconnect would become a necessity.We are already using IPV4 jumboframes for it. Using IPV6 jumbograms, which have support for packet size bigger than IPV4 jumboframes would only be beneficial. I don't see any research happening in that area for IPV4. - IMHO Regards, Saurabh Manroy > > > On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 12:48 PM, Martin Bach < > development@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> On 13/02/2012 11:32, Niall Litchfield wrote: >> > I can't really see many internal corporate networks adopting IPv6 at all >> > (at least for many years), I just don't see what advantages it gives a >> > private network over the costs involved in moving. External networks >> > presumably will have to adopt the standard sooner or later. >> I fully agree! It makes me wonder who has asked Oracle to provide IPv6 >> listeners and name resolution in the first place. I wouldn't really >> recommend turning it on this "deep" in the stack. You could have IPv6-> >> IPv4 conversion in the application/load balancer layer if the >> application has to be accessible from the outside world. For anything >> that stays inside IPv4 will be enough for a long time. >> >> Maybe there are reasons to simplify the stack and use IPv6 throughout? >> >> Regards, >> >> Martin >> -- >> //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l >> >> >> > -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l