| Game_boy said: 1. As soon as most people use Vista, Linux or Mac OS X >10.3, according to your article. I'm estimating two years from now until 2. Not sure. Isn't IPv6 implemented at the OS level rather than hardware? 3. Absolutely. It's not going to be a physical, hardware problem. 4. No, IPv6 is just address space extension. There may even be a slowdown from using longer addresses.
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Thanks for the reply. Regarding 4, I believe you are correct for 32-bit processors, but for 64-bit processors and,even more so, 128-bit processors there should be either a performance boost or no effect since an IPv6 address is 128-bits long. I believe the Cell is a 128-bit processor(correct me if I am wrong).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPv6#128-bit_length
