Re: IPv6 traffic percentages?

2017-06-22 Thread Mukom Akong T.
igured for IPv6). The > bigger the business, the bigger the chance of rejection. > Did they per chance state their reasons for rejecting it? -- Mukom Akong T. LinkedIn:Mukom <https://www.linkedin.com/in/mukom>

Re: Experiences with IPv6 and Routing Efficiency

2014-01-19 Thread Mukom Akong T.
as a cache exhaustion attack, which can cause regular connectivity on that LAN to be trashed. I totally forgot about this scenario. Yes it is a real problem. -- Mukom Akong T. http://about.me/perfexcellence | twitter: @perfexcellent

Re: Experiences with IPv6 and Routing Efficiency

2014-01-18 Thread Mukom Akong T.
On 18 Jan 2014 09:42, bmann...@vacation.karoshi.com wrote: please define efficient in this context. Would a routing device process (while forwarding for example) more IPv6 packets than IPv4? Not a dictionary definition /bill On Sat, Jan 18, 2014 at 08:09:58AM +0400, Mukom Akong T. wrote

Re: Experiences with IPv6 and Routing Efficiency

2014-01-18 Thread Mukom Akong T.
that question might be difficult to prove on a real network that runs dual stack. Since the existence of IPv4 on both control and data planes may have consequences that we don't immediately understand. -- Mukom Akong T. http://about.me/perfexcellence | twitter: @perfexcellent

Re: Experiences with IPv6 and Routing Efficiency

2014-01-18 Thread Mukom Akong T.
of extension headers are routinely dropped by a large percentage of organisations. Flow labels are generally unused (i.e. set to zero by many host stacks). -- Mukom Akong T. http://about.me/perfexcellence | twitter: @perfexcellent

Re: Experiences with IPv6 and Routing Efficiency

2014-01-18 Thread Mukom Akong T.
. -- Mukom Akong T. http://about.me/perfexcellence | twitter: @perfexcellent -- “When you work, you are the FLUTE through whose lungs the whispering of the hours

Experiences with IPv6 and Routing Efficiency

2014-01-17 Thread Mukom Akong T.
in header - no intermediate fragmentation - no checksums Thanks in advance. -- Mukom Akong T. http://about.me/perfexcellence | twitter: @perfexcellent -- “When you

Re: What Should an Engineer Address when 'Selling' IPv6 to Executives?

2013-03-07 Thread Mukom Akong T.
reachability. Thank you once again. Regards, Bill Herrin -- William D. Herrin her...@dirtside.com b...@herrin.us 3005 Crane Dr. .. Web: http://bill.herrin.us/ Falls Church, VA 22042-3004 -- Mukom Akong T. http://about.me/perfexcellence | twitter

Re: What Should an Engineer Address when 'Selling' IPv6 to Executives?

2013-03-07 Thread Mukom Akong T.
On Thursday, March 7, 2013, Antonio Querubin wrote: On Wed, 6 Mar 2013, Mukom Akong T. wrote: On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 8:20 PM, Antonio Querubin t...@lavanauts.org wrote: I don't think the business case is the issue. It is the timeline over which the sense of urgency becomes important

Re: What Should an Engineer Address when 'Selling' IPv6 to Executives?

2013-03-06 Thread Mukom Akong T.
the timeline if they aren't convinced it is even worth doing? -- Mukom Akong T. http://about.me/perfexcellence | twitter: @perfexcellent -- “When you work, you

What Should an Engineer Address when 'Selling' IPv6 to Executives?

2013-03-05 Thread Mukom Akong T.
represent the views of my employers, past or present. -- Mukom Akong T. http://about.me/perfexcellence | twitter: @perfexcellent -- “When you work, you are the FLUTE

Re: What Should an Engineer Address when 'Selling' IPv6 to Executives?

2013-03-05 Thread Mukom Akong T.
[a]. Even though I only mentioned it for gov't contracts as I think those are the fat juicy ones. But yes, I do agree about the fact that non-compliance could mean you lose some business today. Regards -- Mukom Akong T. http://about.me/perfexcellence | twitter: @perfexcellent

Re: What Should an Engineer Address when 'Selling' IPv6 to Executives?

2013-03-05 Thread Mukom Akong T.
/ cost savings is not a huge factor since the required investment is close to nil. The low hurdle advantage remains only if the organisation starts soon and progresses incrementally. I suspect the longer v6 deployment is put off, the more this advantage is eroded. -- Mukom Akong T. http

Re: What Should an Engineer Address when 'Selling' IPv6 to Executives?

2013-03-05 Thread Mukom Akong T.
as a solution to that, plus future unknown benefits that may result from e-2-e and NAT elimination. I have no clue how to sell 'benefit' of IPv6 in isolation as right now even for engineers, there's not much of a benefit except more address space. -- Mukom Akong T. http://about.me/perfexcellence

Re: What Should an Engineer Address when 'Selling' IPv6 to Executives?

2013-03-05 Thread Mukom Akong T.
this before. In some cases more than once. e.g.: Novell - TCP/IP Windows Networking - TCP/IP Appletalk - TCP/IP NCP - TCP/IP I totally didn't think of this perspective ... this is really assuring. -- Mukom Akong T. http

Re: What Should an Engineer Address when 'Selling' IPv6 to Executives?

2013-03-05 Thread Mukom Akong T.
. Herrin her...@dirtside.com b...@herrin.us 3005 Crane Dr. .. Web: http://bill.herrin.us/ Falls Church, VA 22042-3004 -- Mukom Akong T. http://about.me/perfexcellence | twitter: @perfexcellent

Re: What Should an Engineer Address when 'Selling' IPv6 to Executives?

2013-03-05 Thread Mukom Akong T.
Hello all, I forgot to include a link to the post that details the framework I initially suggested. It's at http://techxcellence.net/2013/03/05/v6-business-case-for-engineers/ Regards

Re: IPV6 in enterprise best practices/white papaers

2013-01-28 Thread Mukom Akong T.
servers and so on. Does an L2 switch really care about IPv6? (except for stuff like DHCPv6 snooping, etc?) -- Mukom Akong T. http://about.me/perfexcellence | twitter: @perfexcellent

What would a Step-by-Step Framework for Planning an IPv6 Deployment Look Like?

2013-01-27 Thread Mukom Akong T.
deployment? Please share. Regards and have a wonderful week! [Disclaimer]: Like with all my posts, ALL opinions are mine and do not necessary represent the views or positions of any of my professional affiliations. Mukom Akong T. http://about.me/perfexcellence | twitter: @perfexcellent

Re: need help about bgd and ospf

2012-05-19 Thread Mukom Akong T.
Hi Deric, On May 18, 2012, at 5:14 PM, Deric Kwok deric.kwok2...@gmail.com wrote: 1/ Do I have to redistrt bgd in ospf to make ospf to know which upstrem bgp routers to go out Just an addition to what the others have already said. Redistributing BGP into OSPF is rarely an effective thing

Re: IPv6 Launch day preparation

2012-04-14 Thread Mukom Akong T.
Interesting setup you have there!! From the session, do you have configs for the different scenarios that were tested and what kind of 'issues' were unearthed? Regards On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 10:03 PM, Pierre-Yves Maunier na...@maunier.org wrote:

Step-by-step procedure for doing IPv6 subnetting

2012-04-03 Thread Mukom Akong T.
Hello all I often get lots of people who want to know the procedure for doing IPv6 subnetting like we are used to in IPv4. Before using tools and utilities to make things easy, I always like to know the general principles. I've put up a post about a general and quick procedure on how to subnet

Re: filtering /48 is going to be necessary

2012-03-11 Thread Mukom Akong T.
On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 11:27 PM, Owen DeLong o...@delong.com wrote: 1) absolutely must drop /48 de-aggregates from ISP blocks 2) absolutely must make RIR policy so orgs can get /48s for anycasting, and whatever other purposes Item 1 will be interesting. Item 2 is already done in ARIN and I

Re: Common operational misconceptions

2012-03-03 Thread Mukom Akong T.
On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 4:46 AM, Michael Sinatra mich...@rancid.berkeley.edu wrote: ULA is the IPv6 equivalent of RFC1918 Michael, could you explain this a bit more? In the sense that : a. Anyone can use ULA pretty much as they wish without having to go to their ISP or RIR - same for RFC1918 b.

Re: Network Traffic Collection

2012-03-02 Thread Mukom Akong T.
. Thanks, Ali On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 2:27 AM, Mukom Akong T. mukom.ta...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 12:20 AM, Matlock, Kenneth L matlo...@exempla.org wrote: Netflow + netflow collector. +1 This guide should give you a good start. http://techowto.files.wordpress.com/2008/09/ntop

Re: IPv6 net tools

2012-03-02 Thread Mukom Akong T.
As students doing a final project, I'd suggest installing your favourite linux/unix distro, installing these tools on them yourself and learning for yourself which supports IPv6, to what extent. You can later upgrade or produce v6-related documentation pages for those tools as a service to the

Re: Small ISP Need to Know

2012-03-02 Thread Mukom Akong T.
On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 5:02 AM, not common notcommonmista...@gmail.com wrote: Where is a good place (or places) to start learning ISP operations Need To Know? The problem with Need to Know especially operationally is you end up with lot of advice from 'experienced' people which would be

Re: Network Traffic Collection

2012-02-24 Thread Mukom Akong T.
On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 12:20 AM, Matlock, Kenneth L matlo...@exempla.org wrote: Netflow + netflow collector. +1 This guide should give you a good start. http://techowto.files.wordpress.com/2008/09/ntop-guide.pdf Regards -- Mukom Akong Tamon __ If we can't BREATH, we'll die.