On 7/21/10 12:39 PM, "Seth Mattinen" <se...@rollernet.us> wrote:
> On 7/21/2010 12:08, Zaid Ali wrote: >> I currently have a v4 BGP session with AS 701 and recently requested a v6 >> BGP session to which I was told a tunnel session will be provided (Same >> circuit would be better but whatever!). Towards the final stage in >> discussions I was told that it will cost $1500. I find this quite ridiculous >> and it will certainly not motivate people to move to v6 if providers put a >> direct price tag on it. I am going through a bandwidth reseller though so I >> am not sure who is trying to jack me here. Has anyone here gone through a >> similar experience? >> > > Ooh, Verizon? Good luck. Do you know what pop (VZ calles them "hubs") > your existing circuit is out of? Not all of 701 is IPv6 enabled. If you > are currently served from a v4 only location you're out of luck. > POS-6 SJC > I ordered an Ethernet circuit from Verizon last year as dual-stack > IPv4/IPv6. There was no extra cost involved. However, they never did > actually deliver the layer 3 portion, so I just let them languish into > obscurity. My problem was that I'm closer to a v4 only pop (Sacramento), > but the closest 4/6 pop is further away in San Jose. For some reason > they could not figure out how to go there and kept defaulting to Sac. > Eventually they called me and said it's just not possible to deliver the > service. I ended up placing an order with Global Crossing and the > dual-stack process was completely painless. Sigh.. Explains why I never got a straight answer on native v6 support. First they said yes then now Tunnel only. Perhaps time to turn them off. Zaid