About Internode and IPv6

Welcome to Internode's IPv6 site.

Customers are advised to read this entire page prior to accessing IPv6 through Internode.

Please note that the information on this site is of a reasonably technical nature.

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Internode's Domestic and International networks are now running IPv6 natively. We now connect to many peers and upstreams directly over IPv6. This means that we're one of the first networks in Australia to have full IPv6 connectivity, and we're now making IPv6 available to our customers.

What is it?

IPv6 is the next generation Internet Protocol, primarily with longer IP addresses (128 bit vs 32 bit for IPv4) to overcome the pending shortage (perhaps as soon as 2011) of IPv4 addresses.

It's likely that IPv6 will give us enough addresses for quite some time - about 340,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 in fact.

See Wikipedia for more details: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ipv6

What is Internode doing?

Internode now run 'dual stack' (ie IPv4 and IPv6 together) over our core network, with global IPv6 peering and transit in the U.S., Europe and Asia, and local Australian IPv6 peering.

Access is available via an ADSL Broadband Trial, Native Ethernet, and Tunnel Broker.

Important Caveats - Please read before using IPv6

Security

While the IPv6 protocol is not new, its global deployment is still at a relatively early stage.

It is important to appreciate that the use of the Internode IPv6 Tunnel Broker effectively bypasses any firewall/security features in your existing IPv4 router/firewall, by connecting your end system directly to the IPv6 Internet. IPv6 client system firewall software and security features are in relatively early stages of development for some end systems.

If you are not comfortable using IPv6 at this time, on this basis, please do not proceed.

Cost

There is no extra charge for using IPv6 access with Internode.

No Unmetering with IPv6

The 'Unmetering' of certain sites that is offered to Internode ADSL customers is not available via IPv6 (regardless of access method). Internode has not yet determined whether unmetering will be either technically feasible or commercially viable to offer to its  customers in the future.

Accordingly, all downloads of data from the Internet via IPv6 is metered, regardless of whether a given site is available on an 'unmetered' basis to ADSL customers using IPv4.