Re: IPv6 news

2005-10-15 Thread Tony Li
I don't want to speak for Daniel, nor other operators really, but a solution that doesn't allow an operator to traffic engineer internally or externally is just not workable. For the same reasons quoted in your other messages to me: "Increased reliance on the Internet" There's nothing in

Re: IPv6 news

2005-10-15 Thread Tony Li
but when similar things were proposed at other meetings, somebody always said "no! we have to have end- to-end, and if we'd wanted nat-around-every-net we'd've stuck with IPv4." Is VJ compression considered a violation of the "end-to-end" principle? Or perhaps I misunderstand (yet again

Re: IPv6 news

2005-10-15 Thread David Conrad
On Oct 15, 2005, at 9:08 PM, Paul Vixie wrote: but when similar things were proposed at other meetings, somebody always said "no! we have to have end-to- end, and if we'd wanted nat-around-every-net we'd've stuck with IPv4." Hmm. Is VJ compression considered a violation of the "end-to-end"

Re: IPv6 news

2005-10-15 Thread Mike Leber
On Sat, 15 Oct 2005, John Payne wrote: > On Oct 15, 2005, at 3:29 PM, Tony Li wrote: > >> So the IETF identified 4 reasons to multihome. Of those 4, shim6 > >> ignores at least 2 of them (operational policy and cost), and so > >> far as I can see glosses over load sharing. > > > > If you hav

Re: IPv6 news

2005-10-15 Thread David Conrad
Jordi, On Oct 15, 2005, at 2:09 AM, JORDI PALET MARTINEZ wrote: I don't think users need to be charged any extra for IPv6 if it runs in the same pipe as their actual IPv4 one. If IPv6 is tunneled through IPv4 in such a way that the ISP doesn't have to do anything special, then I suspect y

Re: IPv6 news

2005-10-15 Thread Paul Vixie
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Conrad) writes: > On Oct 15, 2005, at 3:27 PM, Tony Li wrote: > > When we explored site multihoming (not rehoming) in the ways that > > you seem to suggest, it was effectively a set of coordinated NAT > > boxes around the periphery of the site. That was rejected quit

Re: IPv6 news

2005-10-15 Thread Christopher L. Morrow
On Sat, 15 Oct 2005, Tony Li wrote: > >> The operational community needs to reach consensus on what its > >> priorities are. We fought the CIDR wars to keep the routing > >> subsystem working and the operational community were the primary > >> backers of that. To not support scalable multihoming

Really OT: Re: Time for a real Internet highway (?)

2005-10-15 Thread Scott Weeks
From: Randy Bush <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Scott Weeks" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: nanog@merit.edu Subject: Re: Time for a real Internet highway (?) Date: Sat, 15 Oct 2005 12:14:51 -1000 > > The internet is global and without boundries. The US > > highway system is domestic with boundries. > > the h

Re: IPv6 news

2005-10-15 Thread David Conrad
Tony, On Oct 15, 2005, at 3:27 PM, Tony Li wrote: When we explored site multihoming (not rehoming) in the ways that you seem to suggest, it was effectively a set of coordinated NAT boxes around the periphery of the site. That was rejected quite quickly. What were the reasons for rejecti

Re: IPv6 news

2005-10-15 Thread Tony Li
I don't have an acceptable solution... however, I am getting tired of shim6 being pushed as *the* solution to site rehoming, when at best it's an end node rehoming solution. Well, sorry. When we explored site multihoming (not rehoming) in the ways that you seem to suggest, it was effe

Re: Time for a real Internet highway (?)

2005-10-15 Thread Randy Bush
> The internet is global and without boundries. The US > highway system is domestic with boundries. the history of the interstate bill is quite interesting. among other things, it killed the trains, contributed to the degredation of the inner cities, ... and guess which industries lobbied it th

RE: IPv6 news - newbie

2005-10-15 Thread JP Velders
On Fri, 14 Oct 2005, Ben Butler wrote: > Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2005 17:32:10 +0100 > From: Ben Butler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: IPv6 news - newbie > [ ... ] I have no idea whether there is a market for v6 connectivity > / hosting amongst UK businesses, I guess we wi

Re: Time for a real Internet highway (?)

2005-10-15 Thread Scott Weeks
- Original Message Follows - From: "Michael Painter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "NANGO" Subject: Time for a real Internet highway (?) Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2005 13:07:32 -1000 > I'd be very interested in what folks here think of this: > > http://news.com.com/Time+for+a+real+Internet+highway/201

RE: SONET MUX

2005-10-15 Thread Hannigan, Martin
> Hello, > > We are looking for a OC3 -> 3xDS3 MUX. (If it can grow up to > a OC12 -> > 12xDS3 thats a plus) > Sonet side will be 1+1 protected > > I have looked at the following equipment is there any other > sonet muxes that > i should look at? > > Adtran Opti-3 > Adtran OPTI-6100 > Cisco

Re: IPv6 news

2005-10-15 Thread John Payne
On Oct 15, 2005, at 3:29 PM, Tony Li wrote: So the IETF identified 4 reasons to multihome. Of those 4, shim6 ignores at least 2 of them (operational policy and cost), and so far as I can see glosses over load sharing. If you have a solution that satisfies all requirements, you should

Re: IPv6 news

2005-10-15 Thread Joe Abley
On 15-Oct-2005, at 15:29, Tony Li wrote: So the IETF identified 4 reasons to multihome. Of those 4, shim6 ignores at least 2 of them (operational policy and cost), and so far as I can see glosses over load sharing. If you have a solution that satisfies all requirements, you should cont

Re: IPv6 news

2005-10-15 Thread Tony Li
Daniel, The alternative is a multihoming scheme that does not require a prefix per site. But that doesn't match the stated requirement of 'conventional', 'proven', 'working' [sic], 'feature-complete'. Those weren't the "stated requirements" on an alternative multihoming scheme,, but only t

Re: IPv6 news

2005-10-15 Thread Tony Li
So the IETF identified 4 reasons to multihome. Of those 4, shim6 ignores at least 2 of them (operational policy and cost), and so far as I can see glosses over load sharing. If you have a solution that satisfies all requirements, you should contribute it. Shim6 is indeed a partial solu

Re: IPv6 news

2005-10-15 Thread Tony Li
Perhaps that middle ground is a mix of these 2 things? Perhaps. But what we currently seem to believe is that current routing table growth is dominated by traffic engineering and multihoming. If future routing is to scale better than today, then we need some strong forces that push fo

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

2005-10-15 Thread Marshall Eubanks
On Sat, 15 Oct 2005 00:22:15 -0500 Nicholas Suan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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

Re: IPv6 news

2005-10-15 Thread Jared Mauch
On Sat, Oct 15, 2005 at 08:36:29PM +0930, Mark Prior wrote: > It might be "closer" if we turned up IPv6 with Sprint but are they > native yet? Nope. http://www.nanog.org/mtg-0405/augmentation.html and http://www.nanog.org/mtg-0405/pdf/rockell.pdf Although it's dated, I don't

Re: IPv6 news

2005-10-15 Thread Christopher L. Morrow
On Fri, 14 Oct 2005, Tony Li 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, > >> proven, working, feature-comple

Re: shim6 (was Re: IPv6 news)

2005-10-15 Thread Christopher L. Morrow
On Fri, 14 Oct 2005, David Conrad wrote: > Christopher, > (chris is fine, silly corp email doesn't let us have sane addresses :( ) > 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-attenti

Re: IPv6 news

2005-10-15 Thread Paul Jakma
On Sat, 15 Oct 2005, Randy Bush wrote: it sounds as if you have the mythical separation of locator and identifier :-)/2. the problem is that there is likely to be a shortage of those locators. Yes ;^) Note that it's not 6to4, it's a proper 2001:: /48 delegation via the SIXXS tunnel-broker

Re: IPv6 news

2005-10-15 Thread Randy Bush
> FWIW, my current IPv6 assignment is PI to a degree (where P == my > first hop IPv4 provider), I can change this "first hop IPv4" provider > to any other provider within my country and still retain my IPv6 > assignment. it sounds as if you have the mythical separation of locator and identifie

Re: IPv6 news

2005-10-15 Thread Paul Jakma
On Fri, 14 Oct 2005, Tony Li wrote: The alternative is a multihoming scheme that does not require a prefix per site. Another alternative is to force-align allocation and topology in some way /other/ than by "Providers" (geographical allocation in whatever hierarchy, IX allocation, whatever)

Re: shim6 (was Re: IPv6 news)

2005-10-15 Thread Paul Vixie
# > if all you've got is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail. # # I guess the question was what is the problem IPng was supposed to solve? that depends on who you ask. the pet problem i was dealing with at the time was the necessary evil called CIDR. necessary because infinite routing ta

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

2005-10-15 Thread Bernhard Schmidt
On 2005-10-15, Nicholas Suan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>I'm told there are 6to4 relays seeing in excess of 100mbps. Not bursts. >>Can you imagine trying to handle 100mbps "internet mix" traffic process >>switched? :-Z Not even talking about the peaks. > They may be handling 100mbps but they als

Re: IPv6 news

2005-10-15 Thread Brandon Butterworth
> But I have also to admit that I'm shocked how few folks have the balls > (or is it lazyness?) to express their opinion on IPv6 multihoming in the > public, on the established fora for that stuff. The probably got bored of having "it doesn't scale" shouted at them > Almost zero feedback from e

shim6 ... easy?

2005-10-15 Thread bmanning
On Sat, Oct 15, 2005 at 10:44:39AM +0200, Daniel Roesen wrote: > > Operators DO support scalable multihoming, but it has to deliver what > they want/need. HOW this can be achieved is the task of the IETF and > the REAL challenge. shim6 is only "the easy way out". > > Daniel Easy... perh

Re: IPv6 news

2005-10-15 Thread Mark Prior
On 14/10/2005, at 3:35 AM, Peter Lothberg wrote: Here's a challange, have NTP server attached directly to a good clock and a IPv6 network. Is there anyone who can talk to it using IPv6 on the Nanog list? (Time20.Stupi.SE, 2001:0440:1880:1000::0020) yoyo$ ntpdate -q 2001:0440:1880:1000::002

Re: Time for a real Internet highway (?)

2005-10-15 Thread D'Arcy J.M. Cain
On Fri, 14 Oct 2005 13:07:32 -1000 "Michael Painter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 All I can see are two actual arguments for government interven

Re: IPv6 news

2005-10-15 Thread JORDI PALET MARTINEZ
When I suggest to my customers to move to IPv6, I explicitly tell them that planning is very important: 1) Initially (in some cases), your equipment may not have native support for the core/access networks. Not a problem, when you upgrade your network for other reasons (line cards, new IPv4 featu

Re: IPv6 news

2005-10-15 Thread JORDI PALET MARTINEZ
I don't think users need to be charged any extra for IPv6 if it runs in the same pipe as their actual IPv4 one. Do we charge to our customers when we solve a bug or problem in our network ? IPv6 was invented to solve a "bug" in IPv4: The lack of enough addresses. Of course, now IPv6 could bring

Re: IPv6 news

2005-10-15 Thread Daniel Roesen
On Fri, Oct 14, 2005 at 09:52:19PM -0700, Tony Li wrote: > The alternative is a multihoming scheme that does not require a > prefix per site. But that doesn't match the stated requirement of > 'conventional', 'proven', 'working' [sic], 'feature-complete'. Those weren't the "stated requiremen

Re: IPv6 news

2005-10-15 Thread Randy Bush
> there is no hope in having operators explain to ietf that the current path > is fruitless? certainly they can be made to see the light, yes? you have not spent much time with the ivtf, have you? randy