Colin Alston wrote:
On 27/03/2008 08:46 Badru Ntege wrote:
1) Are you currently running IPv6 in either test or production mode
Yes. A /48 tunnel from Hurricane Electric, distributed from our head
office - we aren't big enough to be a LIR, and no ISP's will give us
native over DSL.
Am waiting on stable support from some bits of software which I'm
hoping will arrive mid-year, primarily Squid.
ip6tables and iproute2-rules also still needs *lots* of work before
it's production ready in my opinion.
2) Are you aware of any Network operators on the continent with either
published or internal V6 plans
I know POSIX and Apolix (both Directors there have replied to this
already) have been working at it for some time.
:-)
And UniForum SA has its own /48 - which works well...
Verizon claims to have plans - but they have a prefix but have never
announced or given solid details of their plans.
Hmm... I peer with them - and AfriNIC is one of their upstream customers
- that all works just fine.
# traceroute6 www.afrinic.net
traceroute to www.afrinic.net (2001:42d0::200:80:1) from
2001:42a0:1000:ff02:20e:cff:fe3e:99ca, 30 hops max, 24 byte packets
1 cispos2-fe0-0.posix.co.za (2001:42a0:1000:ff02::1) 0.908 ms 0.794
ms 0.785 ms
2 cisrb1-cispta2.posix.co.za (2001:42a0:0:ff01::1) 15.6 ms 26.523
ms 79.914 ms
3 cisjinx-fe0-0.posix.co.za (2001:42a0:0:ff02::6) 27.605 ms 18.084
ms 16.651 ms
4 verizon.jinx.net.za (2001:478:142::11) 16.449 ms 53.758 ms 30.045 ms
5 2001:4218::100:5 (2001:4218::100:5) 50.403 ms 72.775 ms 33.027 ms
6 2001:4218:0:1::2 (2001:4218:0:1::2) 33.254 ms 204.642 ms 40.816 ms
7 www.afrinic.net (2001:42d0::200:80:1) 97.509 ms 44.014 ms 68.36 ms
IS claims to have plans - they have a prefix and are announcing as of
2008-03-20. I'm eager to find out what these are.
I too noticed that they seem to be "up" - but unaware of any local peering.
MTN-NS has not claimed to have plans, they have a prefix but have
never announced.
Telkom can never "confirm or deny" anything (as usual ;)), but they do
announce - I don't know if they resell native yet though in any way
accessible to smaller players.
Well - I do have an IPv6 peering session with them. Not sure what
traffic runs over this yet...
Neotel are not announcing their prefix - I find this most disturbing
since they have built their network very recently, it should have been
fairly easy to factor v6 in and run a dual stack immediately. They may
or may not be doing this, however they do not make mention of anything
TENET have very published plans and have been the earliest adopter so
far. They are strictly for tertiary upstream though.
But do peer locally (eg - with UniForum and Posix)
3) Are you aware of any government supported initiatives around the V6
adoption
No
5) Any suggestions on what we should be doing as a community ??
I think we're doing or have done what we should be doing. That is to
support the right policies to get us closer to adoption, and to
pressurise incumbent ISPs into seeing the business case for v6.
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