Re: IPv6 and BGP

2005-10-14 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Thu, Oct 13, 2005 at 01:32:32PM -0500, Mike Hyde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote a message of 3 lines which said: > On the subject of ipv6, is there currently any way to multi-home > with IPv6 yet? RFC 4177: Architectural Approaches to Multi-homing for IPv6 (five approaches, including at least o

Re: IPv6 news

2005-10-14 Thread Daniel Roesen
On Fri, Oct 14, 2005 at 12:32:29AM +, Christopher L. Morrow wrote: > A few folks that have a deployment going are ahead of the curve, hopefully > they can keep the parts they have running and upgrade away from the 7507 > that is their current solution :) The larger EU/US ISPs that have real d

Re: Bad IPv6 connectivity or why not to announce more specifics (Was: IPv6 news)

2005-10-14 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
On Thu, 13 Oct 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Somehow, I don't think anything that Abilene does is going to fix Jordi's routing. From where *you* are, do *you* have a path to 2001:0440:1880:1000::0020 that *doesn't go through Japan? If so, what does your path look like? # traceroute6 2001:0

Re: IPv6 news

2005-10-14 Thread Michael . Dillon
> Blech. :) (For comparison, here's the IPv4 traceroute: Very interesting. From the east coast your IPv4 traffic goes to Virginia and then to the UK. But your IPv6 traffic goes to Atlanta, Houston, LA and across the Pacific. Is this due to someone's misconfiguration of weights? --Michael Dillo

Re: IPv6 news

2005-10-14 Thread Michael . Dillon
> "I told them dudes to forklift their network" is hardly productive. IPv6 is not a forklift upgrade. > Showing, if folks can't find it themselves, that there is a business case > that would justify a few million dollar upgrade is... Again, it is cheaper to ease into IPv6 rather than waiting u

Re: IPv6 news

2005-10-14 Thread Michael . Dillon
> There are a few interesting questions here (partially rhetorical): And also: Should your company be preparing to operate v6 services at all? Popular opinion is that when the automobile was invented, all buggy manufacturers shut down. This is not true. http://www.liveryone.net/ IPv6 is one of

Re: Bad IPv6 connectivity or why not to announce more specifics (Was: IPv6 news)

2005-10-14 Thread Jeroen Massar
On Thu, 2005-10-13 at 15:50 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Thu, 13 Oct 2005 21:44:23 +0200, Jeroen Massar said: > > > Kick Abilene to not be so silly and get some real transits. Then again > > Abiline is educational and those networks seem to have very nice (read: > > overcomplex) routing p

Re: IPv6 news

2005-10-14 Thread Bjørn Mork
Brandon Ross <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, 13 Oct 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> I'm sure that there will be a frantic scramble, but I don't >> expect it to last long enough for an IPv4 black market to >> form. > > There's already a black market in IPv4. I've seen plenty of offers to

The Cidr Report

2005-10-14 Thread cidr-report
This report has been generated at Fri Oct 14 21:45:56 2005 AEST. The report analyses the BGP Routing Table of an AS4637 (Reach) router and generates a report on aggregation potential within the table. Check http://www.cidr-report.org/as4637 for a current version of this report. Recent Table Hist

Re: IPv6 news

2005-10-14 Thread Sabri Berisha
On Fri, Oct 14, 2005 at 12:32:29AM +, Christopher L. Morrow wrote: > As ted and others have already said: "Show me the customers who are > asking"... so far the numbers are startlingly low, too low to justify full > builds by anyone large. Just wait for a popular adult-content-provider offeri

Re: IPv6 news

2005-10-14 Thread Paul Vixie
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter Lothberg) writes: > Is there anyone who can talk to it using IPv6 on the Nanog list? > > (Time20.Stupi.SE, 2001:0440:1880:1000::0020) [sa:amd64] ntpq -p 2001:0440:1880:1000::0020 remote refid st t when poll reach delay offset jitter ===

Re: IPv6 news

2005-10-14 Thread Christopher L. Morrow
On Fri, 14 Oct 2005, Jeroen Massar wrote: > On Thu, 2005-10-13 at 22:55 +, Christopher L. Morrow wrote: > > > > I also presume you sent them a check and showed them the business case for > > the upgrade? No large provider is going to upgrade anything without a > > business reason. > > Curre

Cisco Cache Engine Log Applications?

2005-10-14 Thread Doiron, Brian (ITD)
Hello,   Does anyone have any experience or suggestions on Cisco Cache Log Analyzing/Reporting tools?  I’ve downloaded Sawmill which isn’t too bad but I would like to evaluate a couple more.  Windows and Open Source apps are possible candidates.  Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Re: IPv6 news

2005-10-14 Thread Christopher L. Morrow
On Fri, 14 Oct 2005, Sabri Berisha wrote: > > On Fri, Oct 14, 2005 at 12:32:29AM +, Christopher L. Morrow wrote: > > As ted and others have already said: "Show me the customers who are > > asking"... so far the numbers are startlingly low, too low to justify full > > builds by anyone large.

Cisco Cache Engine Log Applications?

2005-10-14 Thread Doiron, Brian (ITD)
Hello,   Does anyone have any experience or suggestions on Cisco Cache Log Analyzing/Reporting tools?  I’ve downloaded Sawmill which isn’t too bad but I would like to evaluate a couple more.  Windows and Open Source apps are possible candidates.  Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Re: IPv6 news

2005-10-14 Thread Marshall Eubanks
On Fri, 14 Oct 2005 15:13:44 +0200 Sabri Berisha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Fri, Oct 14, 2005 at 12:32:29AM +, Christopher L. Morrow wrote: > > As ted and others have already said: "Show me the customers who are > > asking"... so far the numbers are startlingly low, too low to justify

Re: Bad IPv6 connectivity or why not to announce more specifics (Was: IPv6 news)

2005-10-14 Thread Jared Mauch
On Thu, Oct 13, 2005 at 03:50:17PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Thu, 13 Oct 2005 21:44:23 +0200, Jeroen Massar said: > > > Kick Abilene to not be so silly and get some real transits. Then again > > Abiline is educational and those networks seem to have very nice (read: > > overcomplex) ro

Re: IPv6 news

2005-10-14 Thread Jared Mauch
On Fri, Oct 14, 2005 at 10:21:47AM +0200, Daniel Roesen wrote: > > On Fri, Oct 14, 2005 at 12:32:29AM +, Christopher L. Morrow wrote: > > A few folks that have a deployment going are ahead of the curve, hopefully > > they can keep the parts they have running and upgrade away from the 7507 > >

Re: IPv6 news

2005-10-14 Thread Sabri Berisha
On Fri, Oct 14, 2005 at 10:17:51AM -0400, Marshall Eubanks wrote: Dear Marshall, > > Just wait for a popular adult-content-provider offering website-access > > for free via IPv6.. > > Why ? Are you implying that there is unlimited free IPv6 bandwidth ? Nope. > If not, why would they do that

Re: IPv6 news

2005-10-14 Thread Jared Mauch
On Fri, Oct 14, 2005 at 08:41:27AM +0200, Jeroen Massar wrote: > Even then, they could easily do some 'good' tunnels over their own IPv4 > infrastructure, enabling IPv6 at the edges where they connect their > customers and maybe do some sensible peering and thus providing sensible > IPv6 transit t

Re: IPv6 news

2005-10-14 Thread Joe Abley
On 14-Oct-2005, at 10:13, Christopher L. Morrow wrote: Yep, there is no multihoming, but effectively, except for the BGP tricks that are currently being played in IPv4 there is nothing in IPv4 either. But one won't need to upgrade a Tier 1's hardware to support shim6, as shim6 is: 1) no

Choosing new transit: software help?

2005-10-14 Thread John Dupuy
We are looking at getting an additional transit connection. In the past, we have used fixedorbit.com and the like and "guesstimated" our best transit choices. (Other factors came into play as well, of course, such as price...) Anyway, does anyone have a suggestion for determine our next best

RE: Choosing new transit: software help?

2005-10-14 Thread David Hubbard
From: John Dupuy > > We are looking at getting an additional transit connection. > > In the past, we have used fixedorbit.com and the like and > "guesstimated" our best transit choices. (Other factors > came into play as well, of course, such as price...) > > Anyway, does anyone have a suggest

Re: IPv6 news

2005-10-14 Thread Jeroen Massar
On Fri, 2005-10-14 at 10:57 -0400, Joe Abley wrote: > Are you suggesting that something else is required for ISPs above and > beyond announcing PI space with BGP, or that shim6 (once baked and > real) would present a threat to ISPs? There is one situation which is not really covered here, one

Re: IPv6 news

2005-10-14 Thread Daniel Roesen
On Fri, Oct 14, 2005 at 10:57:59AM -0400, Joe Abley wrote: > The big gap in the multi-homing story for v6 is for end sites, since > those are specifically excluded by all the RIRs' policies on PI > addressing right now. Shim6 is intended to be a solution for end sites. But isn't a solution fo

Re: Choosing new transit: software help?

2005-10-14 Thread bmanning
On Fri, Oct 14, 2005 at 11:11:52AM -0400, David Hubbard wrote: > > From: John Dupuy > > > > We are looking at getting an additional transit connection. > > > > In the past, we have used fixedorbit.com and the like and > > "guesstimated" our best transit choices. (Other factors > > came into pl

Re: IPv6 news

2005-10-14 Thread Sam Hayes Merritt, III
Should your company be preparing to operate v6 services at all? Popular opinion is that when the automobile was invented, all buggy manufacturers shut down. This is not true. http://www.liveryone.net/ A buggy company founded in 1972? What kind of comparison are you trying to make? Wait 75 ye

RE: Choosing new transit: software help?

2005-10-14 Thread David Hubbard
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > I know most nanog responses seem to go off list immediately > > but I'd be interested in this as well for traffic engineering. > > A top AS and top prefix talkers would be really useful. > > perhaps you have forgotten this nifty set of pages: > > htt

Re: IPv6 news

2005-10-14 Thread Joe Abley
On 14-Oct-2005, at 11:27, Daniel Roesen wrote: On Fri, Oct 14, 2005 at 10:57:59AM -0400, Joe Abley wrote: The big gap in the multi-homing story for v6 is for end sites, since those are specifically excluded by all the RIRs' policies on PI addressing right now. Shim6 is intended to be a solut

RE: Choosing new transit: software help?

2005-10-14 Thread Sam Hayes Merritt, III
Anyway, does anyone have a suggestion for determine our next best transit? Essentially, I am looking for techniques of: 1. Gathering our current traffic patterns and subtotalling source/destination IP by ASN. Flowscan will do this. Origin and path. 2. Gathering our BGP views into a useful

Re: Choosing new transit: software help?

2005-10-14 Thread Joe Abley
On 14-Oct-2005, at 11:48, David Hubbard wrote: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I know most nanog responses seem to go off list immediately but I'd be interested in this as well for traffic engineering. A top AS and top prefix talkers would be really useful. perhaps you have forgotten this nift

Asia/Pac Carrier Query

2005-10-14 Thread ravi pina
i ping'd the group a while back about anyone who has had or currently has any dealings with asia/pac carriers. the three in particular i am interested in are: - Asia Netcomm - Telstra - Global Crossing any details on circuit turnup, technical issues, language problems, etc would be very h

Re: IPv6 news

2005-10-14 Thread Daniel Roesen
On Fri, Oct 14, 2005 at 11:50:33AM -0400, Joe Abley wrote: > I think it is far too early to judge how many end sites might find > shim6 an acceptable solution, however -- I'd wait for some > measurement and modelling before I made declarations about that, You mean in some 5-10 years? When fin

Re: IPv6 news

2005-10-14 Thread Marshall Eubanks
Dear Sabri; On Fri, 14 Oct 2005 16:34:19 +0200 Sabri Berisha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Fri, Oct 14, 2005 at 10:17:51AM -0400, Marshall Eubanks wrote: > > Dear Marshall, > > > > Just wait for a popular adult-content-provider offering website-access > > > for free via IPv6.. > > > > W

RE: IPv6 news - newbie

2005-10-14 Thread Ben Butler
*** Your mail has been scanned by InterScan VirusWall. ***-*** "One thing i find promising/good: Lots of people here sent their v6 traces to the list, so it's not just a few random geeks messing with v6 as much anymore, it's there. - jared" Hi, Wel

Required attributes for transport layer protocols on Internetworks

2005-10-14 Thread Andre Oppermann
Independent of all this discussion we are witnessing regarding to the IPv6 deployment I'd like to write down some high-level requirements for transport layer protocols in Internetworks (such as the global Internet). Lets have a look at required attributes of such an ideal transport layer protoco

IPv6 - next?

2005-10-14 Thread bmanning
i'd like to see the island of IPv4 being tunneled over a native IPv6 network... not the IPv4 ntworks "turned off". For the good folks who NAT today, there should be a minor change @ the NAT --bill

Re: Choosing new transit: software help?

2005-10-14 Thread Per Heldal
fre, 14,.10.2005 kl. 10.03 -0500, skrev John Dupuy: > We are looking at getting an additional transit connection. > > In the past, we have used fixedorbit.com and the like and "guesstimated" > our best transit choices. (Other factors came into play as well, of course, > such as price...) > > A

Re: Choosing new transit: software help?

2005-10-14 Thread Per Gregers Bilse
On Oct 14, 10:03am [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Subject: Re: Choosing new transit: software help? A remarkably large list of netflow tools is maintained at: http://www.switch.ch/tf-tant/floma/software.html It distinguishes between free and commercial software. > (Note to sales-droids on the list

Re: IPv6 news

2005-10-14 Thread Stephen Sprunk
Thus spake "Mike Leber" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On Thu, 13 Oct 2005, Michael Greb wrote: I can't speak for the others but he.net doesn't seem to interested in customers making use of their "dual stack" network. We looked into getting IPv6 space from them to go with our IPv4 assignments for a coupl

Weekly Routing Table Report

2005-10-14 Thread Routing Table Analysis
This is an automated weekly mailing describing the state of the Internet Routing Table as seen from APNIC's router in Japan. Daily listings are sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you have any comments please contact Philip Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. Routing Table Report 04:00 +10GMT Sat 15 Oct, 2005

Re: Bad IPv6 connectivity or why not to announce more specifics (Was: IPv6 news)

2005-10-14 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Fri, 14 Oct 2005 10:21:20 EDT, Jared Mauch said: > Mine does not: > > punk:~/Desktop> traceroute6 2001:0440:1880:1000::0020 > traceroute to 2001:0440:1880:1000::0020 (2001:440:1880:1000::20) from > 2001:418:3f4:0:20e:a6ff:febf:a5ca, 30 hops max, 16 byte packets > 1 2001:418:3f4::1 (20

Re: IPv6 news

2005-10-14 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Fri, 14 Oct 2005 10:45:14 CDT, "Sam Hayes Merritt, III" said: > A buggy company founded in 1972? > > What kind of comparison are you trying to make? Wait 75 years > after your business is gone and then start anew? No, they were 25 years *ahead* of everybody else. Remember the .com bubble, wh

Re: Bad IPv6 connectivity or why not to announce more specifics (Was: IPv6 news)

2005-10-14 Thread Jared Mauch
On Fri, Oct 14, 2005 at 02:15:20PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Interesting. :) That's the first one I've seen that a sprintv6.net address > isn't at > hop number 3 or so (indicating that the person is basically directly > connected to > sprintv6.net) and also doesn't take a loop through J

shim6 (was Re: IPv6 news)

2005-10-14 Thread David Conrad
Joe (or anyone else), On Oct 14, 2005, at 7:57 AM, Joe Abley wrote: The big gap in the multi-homing story for v6 is for end sites, since those are specifically excluded by all the RIRs' policies on PI addressing right now. Shim6 is intended to be a solution for end sites. Since shim6 req

Re: IPv6 news

2005-10-14 Thread Stephen Sprunk
Thus spake "Sean Figgins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On Thu, 13 Oct 2005, JORDI PALET MARTINEZ wrote: And in 6-12 months the new Vista will start replacing XP, Will start replacing XP on new consumer-grade computers. Corporations will take another 2-4 years to switch, and other people might have upg

Re: IPv6 news

2005-10-14 Thread Stephen Sprunk
Thus spake "Kevin Loch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Randy Bush wrote: and don't you just love the suggestions of natting v6? No, but I would like to see consumer routers support rfc3068 (automatic 6to4 tunneling) by default when there is no native IPv6 access service. If we could convince manufactur

Re: shim6 (was Re: IPv6 news)

2005-10-14 Thread Owen DeLong
BTW, as I read it, SHIM6 requires not only modification to ALL nodes at the site, but, modification to ALL nodes to which the node needs reliable connectivity. In other words, SHIM6 is not fully useful until it is fully ubiquitous in virtually all IPv6 stacks. Owen --On October 14, 2005 11:48:2

Re: shim6 (was Re: IPv6 news)

2005-10-14 Thread Joe Abley
On 14-Oct-2005, at 14:48, David Conrad wrote: On Oct 14, 2005, at 7:57 AM, Joe Abley wrote: The big gap in the multi-homing story for v6 is for end sites, since those are specifically excluded by all the RIRs' policies on PI addressing right now. Shim6 is intended to be a solution for e

Re: shim6 (was Re: IPv6 news)

2005-10-14 Thread Joe Abley
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 14-Oct-2005, at 15:16, Owen DeLong wrote: BTW, as I read it, SHIM6 requires not only modification to ALL nodes at the site, but, modification to ALL nodes to which the node needs reliable connectivity. For one host with multiple, globally-u

Re: shim6 (was Re: IPv6 news)

2005-10-14 Thread bmanning
On Fri, Oct 14, 2005 at 03:19:27PM -0400, Joe Abley wrote: > > >On Oct 14, 2005, at 7:57 AM, Joe Abley wrote: > > > >Since shim6 requires changes in protocol stacks on nodes, my > >impression has been that it isn't a _site_ multihoming solution, > >but rather a _node_ multihoming solution. I

Re: shim6 (was Re: IPv6 news)

2005-10-14 Thread william(at)elan.net
On Fri, 14 Oct 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Since shim6 requires changes in protocol stacks on nodes, my impression has been that it isn't a _site_ multihoming solution, but rather a _node_ multihoming solution. Is my impression incorrect? There is no shortage of rough corners to file down

Re: shim6 (was Re: IPv6 news)

2005-10-14 Thread Daniel Roesen
On Fri, Oct 14, 2005 at 07:27:37PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > the kicker here is that the applications then need some > serious smarts to do proper source address selection. Nope. The ULID is supposed to be static, globally unique. Just not globally routed. Seperating topology

Re: shim6 (was Re: IPv6 news)

2005-10-14 Thread bmanning
On Fri, Oct 14, 2005 at 12:33:51PM -0700, william(at)elan.net wrote: > > On Fri, 14 Oct 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >>>Since shim6 requires changes in protocol stacks on nodes, my > >>>impression has been that it isn't a _site_ multihoming solution, > >>>but rather a _node_ multihoming sol

Re: shim6 (was Re: IPv6 news)

2005-10-14 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Fri, 14 Oct 2005 21:39:58 +0200, Daniel Roesen said: > Nope. The ULID is supposed to be static, globally unique. Just not > globally routed. Seperating topology from identification. > > Something I didn't see discussed yet is that shim6 sites would need to > get a globally unique, provider ind

Re: IPv6 - next?

2005-10-14 Thread JORDI PALET MARTINEZ
Hi Bill, That's happing already in a few big networks. I've 5.000 sites in a single network moving to do that ASAP. Regards, Jordi > De: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Responder a: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Fecha: Fri, 14 Oct 2005 16:38:46 + > Para: "nanog@merit.edu" > Asunto: IPv6 - next? > > >

Re: shim6 (was Re: IPv6 news)

2005-10-14 Thread Crist Clark
Daniel Roesen wrote: On Fri, Oct 14, 2005 at 07:27:37PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: the kicker here is that the applications then need some serious smarts to do proper source address selection. Nope. The ULID is supposed to be static, globally unique. Just not globally r

Re: shim6 (was Re: IPv6 news)

2005-10-14 Thread Daniel Roesen
On Fri, Oct 14, 2005 at 01:11:18PM -0700, Crist Clark wrote: > Actually, doing multihoming and getting PI space are orthogonal in > shim6 last I knew. That is, you could get address space from your N > providers and have one of the providers, say Provider X, to be the > ULID for the end points. Sh

Re: shim6 (was Re: IPv6 news)

2005-10-14 Thread David Meyer
Seems like it might be a good time to update everyone on the IAB IPv6 Multi-homing BOF we're holding Monday afternoon at NANOG. My very draft introduction slides are on http://www.1-4-5.net/~dmm/talks/NANOG35/multihoming. Dave pgpNenCFArWcU.pgp Descriptio

Draft LA Agenda

2005-10-14 Thread Susan Harris
NANOG 35 Draft Agenda October 23-25, 2005 Los Angeles Sunday Tutorials 9:00 - 4:30 p.m. ARIN/NANOG Tutorial: Getting Started With IPv6 Jordi Pa

Re: shim6 (was Re: IPv6 news)

2005-10-14 Thread Paul Vixie
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Conrad) writes: (shouldn't that be [EMAIL PROTECTED] now?) > If my impression is correct, then my feeling is that something else > is required. I am somewhat skeptical that shim6 will be implemented > in any near term timeframe and it will take a very long time for

Re: IPv6 news

2005-10-14 Thread Geoff Huston
At 11:56 PM 13/10/2005, Brandon Ross wrote: On Thu, 13 Oct 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm sure that there will be a frantic scramble, but I don't expect it to last long enough for an IPv4 black market to form. There's already a black market in IPv4. I've seen plenty of offers to "buy"

UltraDNS - are there any brain cells left?

2005-10-14 Thread Matt Ghali
I understand that since secondary.com operations were picked up by UltraDNS, there's been a signifigant brain drain within UDNS operations, and from what I've heard, there isn't a lot of smarts left there. This anecdotal theory is borne out by empirical evidence- they seem unable to come u

Re: shim6 (was Re: IPv6 news)

2005-10-14 Thread Crist Clark
Daniel Roesen wrote: On Fri, Oct 14, 2005 at 01:11:18PM -0700, Crist Clark wrote: Actually, doing multihoming and getting PI space are orthogonal in shim6 last I knew. That is, you could get address space from your N providers and have one of the providers, say Provider X, to be the ULID for t

Re: IPv6 news

2005-10-14 Thread Joseph S D Yao
On Wed, Oct 12, 2005 at 09:56:27PM -0600, Sean Figgins wrote: ... > Our jobs, as network designers and operators will be make it seemless to > the consumer without forcing them to shell out a thousand or more dollars > on new Windows software, and the hardware that will be required to run it > on.

Re: IPv6 news

2005-10-14 Thread Mike Leber
On Fri, 14 Oct 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > There are a few interesting questions here (partially rhetorical): > > And also: > > Should your company be preparing to operate v6 services > at all? Popular opinion is that when the automobile was > invented, all buggy manufacturers shut down.

Re: IPv6 news

2005-10-14 Thread Joseph S D Yao
On Thu, Oct 13, 2005 at 09:28:19AM -0700, Crist Clark wrote: ... > While I do not necessarily disagree with this point of view (as I work > for a company who uses allocated space in such a manner), others may > argue that addresses that are assigned through the Internet Assigned > Numbers Authorit

Deploying 6to4 outbound routes at the border (was Re: IPv6 news)

2005-10-14 Thread Todd Vierling
On Fri, 14 Oct 2005, Stephen Sprunk wrote: > RFC 3068 also has another problem -- not enough relays, or at least not enough > in logical locations. From my home in Texas, a traceroute shows the > topologically "closest" instance of 192.88.99.1 to be in France. Well, anycast isn't necessarily th

Re: shim6 (was Re: IPv6 news)

2005-10-14 Thread william(at)elan.net
On Fri, 14 Oct 2005, Paul Vixie wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Conrad) writes: (shouldn't that be [EMAIL PROTECTED] now?) If my impression is correct, then my feeling is that something else is required. I am somewhat skeptical that shim6 will be implemented in any near term timeframe and

Re: Deploying 6to4 outbound routes at the border (was Re: IPv6 news)

2005-10-14 Thread Daniel Roesen
On Fri, Oct 14, 2005 at 06:06:03PM -0400, Todd Vierling wrote: > That said, even such a distant gateway would be fine for v6 *eyeballs* if > organizations would voluntarily set up 6to4 outbound relays for their own v6 > networks. It's as simple as setting up a route to 2002::/16 at the border > w

Re: IPv6 news

2005-10-14 Thread Mike Leber
On Fri, 14 Oct 2005, Stephen Sprunk wrote: > It is understandable that you charge extra for a v6-enabled port due to your > need to fund upgraded hardware. However, that doesn't explain why you don't > deliver v4 and v6 both over the same higher-priced port. We would be happy to do this for a

Time for a real Internet highway (?)

2005-10-14 Thread Michael Painter
I'd be very interested in what folks here think of this: http://news.com.com/Time+for+a+real+Internet+highway/2010-1028_3-5894664.html?tag=carsl Thanks, --Michael

Re: Time for a real Internet highway (?)

2005-10-14 Thread Matt Ghali
On Fri, 14 Oct 2005, Michael Painter wrote: I'd be very interested in what folks here think of this: http://news.com.com/Time+for+a+real+Internet+highway/2010-1028_3-5894664.html?tag=carsl I think it's a news.com.com.com URL, and therefore most likely not very worth opening, much less re

Re: Time for a real Internet highway (?)

2005-10-14 Thread Michael Painter
- Original Message - From: "Matt Ghali" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Michael Painter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "NANGO" Sent: Friday, October 14, 2005 1:29 PM Subject: Re: Time for a real Internet highway (?) On Fri, 14 Oct 2005, Michael Painter wrote: I'd be very interested in what fo

Re: Time for a real Internet highway (?)

2005-10-14 Thread J. Oquendo
/* LET THE FLAMES BEGIN */ > No fatalities, minor damage. Work and play for some Internet users was > interrupted or disrupted. A short inconvenience, but then normal life > resumed. I wonder what the author would have said if major medical facilities would have had casualties because of the Le

Re: Deploying 6to4 outbound routes at the border (was Re: IPv6 news)

2005-10-14 Thread Todd Vierling
On Sat, 15 Oct 2005, Daniel Roesen wrote: > > It's as simple as setting up a route to 2002::/16 at the border > > with a 6to4 conversion. > > The problem is building a high performance gateway. Currently you have > about the following two options: > > a) set up / configure a Cisco used as 6to4 ga

Re: IPv6 news

2005-10-14 Thread Christopher L. Morrow
On Fri, 14 Oct 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > "I told them dudes to forklift their network" is hardly productive. > > IPv6 is not a forklift upgrade. agreed, it's a measured engineered decision hopefully. backed by financial and prudent engineering decisions. that wasn't the tone of the or

Re: IPv6 news

2005-10-14 Thread Christopher L. Morrow
On Fri, 14 Oct 2005, Jeroen Massar wrote: > On Fri, 2005-10-14 at 10:57 -0400, Joe Abley wrote: > > > Are you suggesting that something else is required for ISPs above and > > beyond announcing PI space with BGP, or that shim6 (once baked and > > real) would present a threat to ISPs? > > There

Re: IPv6 news

2005-10-14 Thread Christopher L. Morrow
On Fri, 14 Oct 2005, Daniel Roesen wrote: > > On Fri, Oct 14, 2005 at 11:50:33AM -0400, Joe Abley wrote: > > I think it is far too early to judge how many end sites might find > > shim6 an acceptable solution, however -- I'd wait for some > > measurement and modelling before I made declarations

Re: Deploying 6to4 outbound routes at the border (was Re: IPv6 news)

2005-10-14 Thread Daniel Roesen
On Fri, Oct 14, 2005 at 10:45:33PM -0400, Todd Vierling wrote: > Maybe to start -- but again, what kind of 6to4 traffic level are we > expecting yet? Peak or average? Think twice before answering. :-) I'm told there are 6to4 relays seeing in excess of 100mbps. Not bursts. Can you imagine trying

Re: IPv6 news

2005-10-14 Thread John Payne
On Oct 14, 2005, at 10:57 AM, Joe Abley wrote: On 14-Oct-2005, at 10:13, Christopher L. Morrow wrote: Yep, there is no multihoming, but effectively, except for the BGP tricks that are currently being played in IPv4 there is nothing in IPv4 either. But one won't need to upgrade a Tier 1

Re: IPv6 news

2005-10-14 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Christopher L. Morrow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > agreed, it's a measured engineered decision hopefully. backed by financial > and prudent engineering decisions. that wasn't the tone of the orignial > comment though, which was: "Yea, I told them to just do it" which is > tantamou

Re: IPv6 news

2005-10-14 Thread Michael Greb
On Fri, Oct 14, 2005 at 03:54:19PM -0700, Mike Leber wrote: > > > On Fri, 14 Oct 2005, Stephen Sprunk wrote: > > It is understandable that you charge extra for a v6-enabled port due to > > your > > need to fund upgraded hardware. However, that doesn't explain why you > > don't > > deliver v4

Re: IPv6 news

2005-10-14 Thread Christopher L. Morrow
On Fri, 14 Oct 2005, Mike Leber wrote: > > Right now the evangelists of IPv6 are like "suck it up man". We're > providing the service, however you've set the expectation in the market > that the value of IPv6 in addition to IPv4 is zero. > > If IPv6 was perceived to have any premimum value (non

Re: IPv6 news

2005-10-14 Thread Christopher L. Morrow
On Fri, 14 Oct 2005, John Payne wrote: > On Oct 14, 2005, at 10:57 AM, Joe Abley wrote: > > On 14-Oct-2005, at 10:13, Christopher L. Morrow wrote: > >>> Yep, there is no multihoming, but effectively, except for the BGP > >>> tricks > >>> that are currently being played in IPv4 there is nothing in

Re: IPv6 news

2005-10-14 Thread Christopher L. Morrow
On Fri, 14 Oct 2005, Chris Adams wrote: > > Once upon a time, Christopher L. Morrow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > agreed, it's a measured engineered decision hopefully. backed by financial > > and prudent engineering decisions. that wasn't the tone of the orignial > > comment though, which was:

Re: IPv6 news

2005-10-14 Thread Daniel Roesen
On Sat, Oct 15, 2005 at 03:15:45AM +, Christopher L. Morrow wrote: > > But I think the discussion is mood. IETF decided on their goal, and > > it's superfluous trying to change that. While watching shim6 we carry > > on hoping that we'll get IPv6 multihoming going in the conventional, > > prov

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Re: IPv6 news

2005-10-14 Thread John Payne
On Oct 14, 2005, at 12:10 PM, Daniel Roesen wrote: designing a solution which misses the stated requirements of many folks actually operating networks So far it's missing some of the stated requirements (reasons for multihoming) listed in the charter... well I was going to cut-n-paste li

Re: IPv6 news

2005-10-14 Thread Daniel Roesen
On Fri, Oct 14, 2005 at 10:21:58PM -0500, Chris Adams wrote: > For some equipment, it still works out to "forklift your network". > For example, our current dialup gear doesn't support IPv6 (and AFAIK > no upgrades are available or planned to add it). How does that hinder your backbone, leased li

Re: shim6 (was Re: IPv6 news)

2005-10-14 Thread Christopher L. Morrow
On Fri, 14 Oct 2005, David Conrad wrote: > Joe (or anyone else), > On Oct 14, 2005, at 7:57 AM, Joe Abley wrote: > > The big gap in the multi-homing story for v6 is for end sites, > > since those are specifically excluded by all the RIRs' policies on > > PI addressing right now. Shim6 is intended

Re: shim6 (was Re: IPv6 news)

2005-10-14 Thread John Payne
On Oct 14, 2005, at 3:33 PM, william(at)elan.net wrote: No. The kicker is that the applications needs no such smarts and shim6 will take care of this for all applications on the system on the network level. Not directly aimed at William: As others have said before (and I finally listened)

Re: IPv6 news

2005-10-14 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Daniel Roesen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On Fri, Oct 14, 2005 at 10:21:58PM -0500, Chris Adams wrote: > > For some equipment, it still works out to "forklift your network". > > For example, our current dialup gear doesn't support IPv6 (and AFAIK > > no upgrades are available or

Re: shim6 (was Re: IPv6 news)

2005-10-14 Thread Christopher L. Morrow
On Fri, 14 Oct 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Fri, 14 Oct 2005 21:39:58 +0200, Daniel Roesen said: > > > Nope. The ULID is supposed to be static, globally unique. Just not > > globally routed. Seperating topology from identification. > > > > Something I didn't see discussed yet is that shim6

Re: shim6 vs nanog

2005-10-14 Thread bmanning
> Not directly aimed at William: As others have said before (and I > finally listened) PLEASE take this discussion to the shim6 list. there are some reasons why i'd rather have the discussion here... ) IETF IPR and legal restraints on postings ) shim6 is a protocol desig

Re: shim6 (was Re: IPv6 news)

2005-10-14 Thread David Conrad
Christopher, On Oct 14, 2005, at 9:32 PM, Christopher L. Morrow wrote: You know, if you describe it that way too many times, people who are only paying half-attention are going to say "IPv6 has something almost like NAT, only different". you know... shim6 could make 'source address' pointles

Re: IPv6 news

2005-10-14 Thread Tony Li
But I think the discussion is mood. IETF decided on their goal, and it's superfluous trying to change that. While watching shim6 we carry on hoping that we'll get IPv6 multihoming going in the conventional, proven, working, feature-complete way we're used to... until IETF there is no hope in

Re: Deploying 6to4 outbound routes at the border (was Re: IPv6 news)

2005-10-14 Thread Nicholas Suan
Daniel Roesen wrote: On Fri, Oct 14, 2005 at 10:45:33PM -0400, Todd Vierling wrote: Maybe to start -- but again, what kind of 6to4 traffic level are we expecting yet? Peak or average? Think twice before answering. :-) I'm told there are 6to4 relays seeing in excess of 100mbps. Not b

Re: shim6 vs nanog

2005-10-14 Thread John Payne
On Oct 15, 2005, at 12:32 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not directly aimed at William: As others have said before (and I finally listened) PLEASE take this discussion to the shim6 list. there are some reasons why i'd rather have the discussion here... ) IETF IPR and legal restraints

RE: Time for a real Internet highway (?)

2005-10-14 Thread David Schwartz
> I wonder what the author would have said if major medical facilities would > have had casualties because of the Level3/Cogentco debacle. Say a surgeon > speaking via VoIP to another doctor about some brain surgery and the > patient flatlines. What about a daytrader about to click on a nice size

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