Re: And Now for Something Completely Different (was Re: IPv6 news)

2005-10-16 Thread Tony Li
How is a split between locator / identifier any different logicaly from the existing ipv4 source routing? IPv4 source routing, as it exists today, is an extremely limited mechanism for specifying waypoints along the path to the destination. This is completely orthogonal to a real

Re: And Now for Something Completely Different (was Re: IPv6 news)

2005-10-16 Thread Mike Leber
is trying to send is that they want this, and not IPv6 as it stands today, then that's the message that should be sent, without reference to shim6. Tony How is a split between locator / identifier any different logicaly from the existing ipv4 source routing? I thought that got dead

Re: And Now for Something Completely Different (was Re: IPv6 news)

2005-10-16 Thread Joe Maimon
Tony Li wrote: How is a split between locator / identifier any different logicaly from the existing ipv4 source routing? IPv4 source routing, as it exists today, is an extremely limited mechanism for specifying waypoints along the path to the destination. IOW the end stations were

Re: And Now for Something Completely Different (was Re: IPv6 news)

2005-10-16 Thread Joe Maimon
to the clients and servers that chose to implement it, however this is no less than the change required for IPv6 which some hoped would solve the multihoming problem (possibly defined as scalably supporting network topology change without sessions being interrupted). Long story short, seperating

Re: And Now for Something Completely Different (was Re: IPv6 news)

2005-10-16 Thread Mike Leber
is not making its own path selection decisions.) Of course support of this new protocol would be limited to the clients and servers that chose to implement it, however this is no less than the change required for IPv6 which some hoped would solve the multihoming problem (possibly defined

Re: And Now for Something Completely Different (was Re: IPv6 news)

2005-10-16 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
multiple IPv6 addresses. So if a timeout occurs to the last used address, you can try another and try to resume the communication. So if the web-server has two different IP:s (from two different providers), both would be in DNS (preferrably) and the TCP session would be established with one

Re: And Now for Something Completely Different (was Re: IPv6 news)

2005-10-16 Thread Brandon Butterworth
Think in the future, do we really want routers that'll handle millions of prefixes and hundreds of thousands of AS numbers, just because people want resiliance? Something will have to provide it and I don't want it to be each of my hosts. I'd rather the hundreds of hosts handle payload and

RE: IPv6 news

2005-10-16 Thread Scott Morris
: Re: IPv6 news [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

Re: And Now for Something Completely Different (was Re: IPv6 news)

2005-10-16 Thread John Reilly
Forgot to subscribe to nanog-post first time round... Forwarded Message On Sun, 2005-10-16 at 05:31 -0400, Joe Maimon wrote: Long story short, seperating endpoint/locator does nothing to allow multiple paths to a single IP6 address/prefix to scale. I may be wrong - I

Re: IPv6 news

2005-10-16 Thread Paul Vixie
# 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

Re: IPv6 news

2005-10-16 Thread Susan Harris
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? Actually Chris has been extremely active in the IETF - his draft on current/desired router

Re: And Now for Something Completely Different (was Re: IPv6 news)

2005-10-16 Thread Joe Abley
implementations to take full advantage of the technology. Thought experiment: how many different software vendors need to change their shipping IPv6 code in order for some new feature like shim6 to be 80% deployed in the server and client communities of hosts? I'm thinking it's probably less

Re: IPv6 news

2005-10-16 Thread Joe Abley
On 16-Oct-2005, at 10:27, John Reilly wrote: On Sat, 2005-10-15 at 22:02 -0700, David Conrad wrote: I _really_ wish people would stop saying 'unlimited' or 'almost infinite' when talking about IPv6 address space. It simply isn't true, even in the theoretical sense, and particularly given

Re: IPv6 news

2005-10-16 Thread Paul Vixie
that long ago. # # It's a solution that made sense for far different reasons when it was # created then it makes sense for now. nope. the problems we're discussing on this thread were all identified ten years ago but ipv6 got standardized in spite of the warnings. ipv6 as it is now specified never

Re: And Now for Something Completely Different (was Re: IPv6 news)

2005-10-16 Thread Randy Bush
GSE also has a direct impact on all implementations (e.g., only use the identifier bits in the TCP pseudo-header, so that is also an all- implementations change. Further, that is a flag day, worldwide, even for non-multi-homed sites. a flag day only for the very small number of ipv6

Re: IPv6 news

2005-10-16 Thread John Reilly
On Sun, 2005-10-16 at 11:08 -0400, Joe Abley wrote: Am I mistaken in thinking that if shim6 (or something like it) did exist, that portable address space could be allocated to everyone (maybe with a different allocation policy?) to be used as (shim6) identifiers. Yes, you're

Re: And Now for Something Completely Different (was Re: IPv6 news)

2005-10-16 Thread Paul Vixie
a supreme court nominee who gets an inevitable question about roe-v-wade and their knee jerks and they say i support the constitution. so even though NAT is here to stay and firewalls are here to stay and proxies are here to stay and most ipv6 deployment by the end of its useful lifetime will have

Re: And Now for Something Completely Different (was Re: IPv6 news)

2005-10-16 Thread Paul Vixie
# ... # # You are missing the point. # # Currently multihomed sites have multiple path entries in the routing table # for a specific multihomed prefix. # # Instead of having multiple paths, you would have multiple location records # in DNS. (Which are A records and any possible reordering by

Re: And Now for Something Completely Different (was Re: IPv6 news)

2005-10-16 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Sun, 16 Oct 2005 10:55:38 EDT, Joe Abley said: Thought experiment: how many different software vendors need to change their shipping IPv6 code in order for some new feature like shim6 to be 80% deployed in the server and client communities of hosts? I'm thinking it's probably less

Re: And Now for Something Completely Different (was Re: IPv6 news)

2005-10-16 Thread Joe Abley
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 16-Oct-2005, at 16:20, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 16 Oct 2005 10:55:38 EDT, Joe Abley said: Thought experiment: how many different software vendors need to change their shipping IPv6 code in order for some new feature like shim6

Re: IPv6 news

2005-10-16 Thread Joe Abley
On 16-Oct-2005, at 11:08, Joe Abley wrote: Yes, you're mistaken. The locator identifier is chosen from the host's pool of upper-layer identifiers. Oops -- I meant the upper-layer identifier is chosen from the host's pool of locators. Must Not Post Before Coffee. Joe

Re: IPv6 news

2005-10-16 Thread Randy Bush
there would seem to be two paths here. the one we are currently walking has more and more complexity to try to deal with the lack of reality-based design in v6. every step, instead of making things simpler, adds more complexity to deal with the mistakes of old narrow decisions. consider an

IPv6 daydreams

2005-10-16 Thread David Barak
--- Randy Bush [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: so, if we had a free hand and ignored the dogmas, what would we change about the v6 architecture to make it really deployable and scalable and have compatibility with and a transition path from v4 without massive kludging, complexity, and long

Re: IPv6 news

2005-10-16 Thread Christopher L. Morrow
On Sat, 15 Oct 2005, Tony Li wrote: 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

Re: IPv6 news

2005-10-16 Thread Christopher L. Morrow
On Sun, 16 Oct 2005, Susan Harris wrote: 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? Actually Chris has been extremely active in the

Re: IPv6 daydreams

2005-10-16 Thread Randy Bush
Okay, I'll bite - If I were king, here's what I'd want to see: [ changes to current policies, not architecture, elided ] let's first agree on some goals o really big address space, not the v6 fixed 32 bit limited game. (old dogs will now bay for variable length, aroo!) o a

Re: IPv6 daydreams

2005-10-16 Thread Randy Bush
o really big address space, not the v6 fixed 32 bit s/32/64/ sorry

Re: IPv6 daydreams

2005-10-16 Thread bmanning
On Sun, Oct 16, 2005 at 05:20:12PM -1000, Randy Bush wrote: Okay, I'll bite - If I were king, here's what I'd want to see: [ changes to current policies, not architecture, elided ] let's first agree on some goals o really big address space, not the v6 fixed 32 bit limited

Re: IPv6 daydreams

2005-10-16 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
allocation a /96. I personally am in favor of reducing minimum allocations like this - and as was discussed quite extensively in the botnet of toasters and microwave ovens when you ipv6 enable the lot thread a few weeks back, it usually ends up that there's just one host in a /48 or /64 so

Re: And Now for Something Completely Different (was Re: IPv6 news)

2005-10-16 Thread Christopher L. Morrow
On Sun, 16 Oct 2005, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote: Think in the future, do we really want routers that'll handle millions of prefixes and hundreds of thousands of AS numbers, just because people want resiliance? If this can be solved on the end-user layer instead, it's more you are getting

Re: IPv6 daydreams

2005-10-16 Thread Randy Bush
o a routing system which has the ability to scale really well in the presence of fewer and fewer nodes (think sites) where out-degree == 1 sure... maybe. is there the presumption of e2e here? i think so, for various valies of e2e o mobility process mobility? latency tolerent?

Re: And Now for Something Completely Different (was Re: IPv6 news)

2005-10-16 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
platform that'll do IPv6 and MPLS, how much difference would it be if you only had to support 16000 labels and 16000 IPv6 prefixes, rather than 2 million? Then of course I guess the argument can be made to put everything on MPLS to avoid the core knowing about anything but outer labels. -- Mikael

Re: And Now for Something Completely Different (was Re: IPv6 news)

2005-10-16 Thread Christopher L. Morrow
in the MPLS case). 'core' doesn't matter so much, somewhere there has to be this knowledge... Perhaps you'll get lucky with some 'edge' devices not having to know about every destination, but I think that might be more rare than you'd like. So if you're building a 100G capable platform that'll do IPv6

Re: shim6 (was Re: IPv6 news)

2005-10-15 Thread David Conrad
? had ietf killed back when there were effectively zero ipv6 hosts on the 'net, and paid the apparently- high A6 complexity penalty, we'd be talking about something else by now. Yeah, like why didn't the Internet work anymore. A6 was simply a broken idea. It might have limped along

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

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 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

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

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

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

2005-10-15 Thread Bernhard Schmidt
than 100mbps are usually the relays used outbound by large content delivery networks (the relay used by newszilla6.xs4all.nl (free binary newsserver) comes to my mind). This is totally manageable with Cisco routers regardless the constant bickering about the suboptimal Cisco (IPv6) performance

Re: shim6 (was Re: IPv6 news)

2005-10-15 Thread Paul Vixie
table growth wasn't possible, evil because it locked customers into their providers, entrenched the existing large providers against future providers, and made it hard or impossible for the average endusing company to multihome. so, when IPv6 was chosen and was more evil in that way, i was mystified

Re: IPv6 news

2005-10-15 Thread Paul Jakma
the allocation policy). 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. That kind of PI at least meets a lot of my needs

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 identifier

Re: IPv6 news

2005-10-15 Thread Paul Jakma
-broker, which is mine to use long as ISPs here do not deploy IPv6 ;). one problem with 6to4 is that having all traffic go through gateways will not scale well. to support v6-only folk, either the number of 6to4 gateways will need to approach the number of dfz routers, the dfz routers will run 6to4

Re: shim6 (was Re: IPv6 news)

2005-10-15 Thread Christopher L. Morrow
are going to say IPv6 has something almost like NAT, only different. you know... shim6 could make 'source address' pointless, you COULD just do NAT instead :) or do shim6 which looks like NAT ... if you don't get the host auth parts correct/done-well you might even be able to send traffic

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-complete way we're

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: 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 or average? Think twice

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

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

Re: IPv6 news

2005-10-15 Thread Tony Li
the attributes of conventional BGP multihoming. Please don't lay words into my mouth I didn't say. Those are exactly the words that you used in your message. I quote: While watching shim6 we carry on hoping that we'll get IPv6 multihoming going in the conventional, proven, working, feature

Re: IPv6 news

2005-10-15 Thread Joe Abley
that there would be any proposals which would meet all the items in the document if they had been wrapped in MUSTs and SHOULDs. As the abstract says: This document outlines a set of goals for proposed new IPv6 site- multihoming architectures. It is recognised that this set of goals

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 - 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 will find

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

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

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 is to

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 quite

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

Re: IPv6 news

2005-10-15 Thread Mike Leber
. Not reducing the information means either having the same number of routing table entries as the number of multihoming sites or enforcing some kind of theoretical heirarchical structure (many of the original IPv6 papers had this pipe dream spelled out for how to handle multihoming) either based

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

2005-10-14 Thread Jeroen Massar
are they not, as they apparently didn't reserve any funds for upgrades of their network, nor didn't take IPv6 along in the last 10 years of hardware cycles, thus clearly having played dumb for the last 10 years, how should their customers suddenly have to cough up to the stupidity of not being able to run

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 one

Re: IPv6 news

2005-10-14 Thread Daniel Roesen
deployments all use Junipers (for their IPv6), not Ciscos (with a few exceptions - Verio?). Don't know wether that's true for ASPAC folks too - can someone comment? One might conclude a thing or two from that - or not. Best regards, Daniel -- CLUE-RIPE -- Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL

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

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

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 until

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

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 buy

Re: IPv6 news

2005-10-14 Thread Sabri Berisha
website-access for free via IPv6.. -- Sabri please do not throw salami pizza away

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
clients are already paying them at them moment are they not, as they apparently didn't reserve any funds for upgrades of their network, nor didn't take IPv6 along in the last 10 years of hardware cycles, thus clearly having played dumb for the last 10 years, how should their silly me... I forgot

Re: IPv6 news

2005-10-14 Thread Christopher L. Morrow
wait for a popular adult-content-provider offering website-access for free via IPv6.. that'd fall into my 1 month ago questions about: Why won't a large content provider or 3 light v6 versions of their services? questions :)

Re: IPv6 news

2005-10-14 Thread Marshall Eubanks
builds by anyone large. 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 ? If not, why would they do that ? If so, I don't do porn, but I would be highly interested in free bandwidth. I

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) routing

Re: IPv6 news

2005-10-14 Thread Jared Mauch
that is their current solution :) The larger EU/US ISPs that have real deployments all use Junipers (for their IPv6), not Ciscos (with a few exceptions - Verio?). Don't know wether that's true for ASPAC folks too - can someone comment? We're using both cisco and juniper in Verio for our IPv6

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

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)

Re: IPv6 news

2005-10-14 Thread Jeroen Massar
customers and so, thus they can easily get a IPv6 prefix from their favourite RIR. Thus they get, say a /32. Now this ISP has a large webfarm in the US. They have a very small one in say, Taiwan. In IPv4, this would mean: chunk up your PA and simply announce them in /20's or whatever is comfortable

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 for

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

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

Re: IPv6 news

2005-10-14 Thread Daniel Roesen
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 perhaps at one point in time realize that they are designing a solution which misses the stated requirements

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.. Why ? Are you

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, Well

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: 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 couple

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

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, where

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

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

Re: IPv6 news

2005-10-14 Thread Stephen Sprunk
for the large percentage of customers that don't care, then that may be the direction we need to take. XP already comes with v6; all you have to do is Start-Run-ipv6 install. Vista will just change things from default off to default on. IT departments can handle the logistics of this once their network

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 manufacturers

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

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

Re: shim6 (was Re: IPv6 news)

2005-10-14 Thread Joe Abley
in virtually all IPv6 stacks. Which is not to say that there is no value in a non-ubiquitous deployment -- rather, the value will grow as deployment proceeds. Joe -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (Darwin) iD8DBQFDUAYT/f+PWOTbRPIRAoZGAJ91IkqDyktDQjBPE0fXBhqXKYtDRwCfYMTq

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. Is my

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

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 solution. Is my

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