Real World

J.C. Mackin

DirectAccess, introduced with Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2, is the first major feature of Windows built exclusively on IPv6 and that lacks any failback to IPv4. You should view the arrival of this feature as something of a wake-up call. To this point, many IT professionals have considered IPv6 a topic they can worry about tomorrow, and many even have been disabling IPv6 in the mistaken belief that it somehow degrades network performance (it doesn't). That many have been living in IPv6 denial is perhaps not surprising: IPv6 has always been a technology of the future