Re: IPv6 mistakes, was: Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer...

2011-03-12 Thread Tom Limoncelli
On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 8:29 PM, Tom Limoncelli t...@whatexit.org wrote: On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 2:56 PM, Owen DeLong o...@delong.com wrote: I think you'll be in for a surprise here, too. The 4G transition is already underway. For the vendors where 4G means LTE, IPv6 is the native protocol

Re: IPv6 mistakes, was: Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer...

2011-03-12 Thread Christian de Larrinaga
Now that is what Baldrick* would call a cunning plan! And interesting examples. Christian *Apologies to Tony Robinson and Blackadder On 12 Mar 2011, at 18:52, Tom Limoncelli wrote: On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 8:29 PM, Tom Limoncelli t...@whatexit.org wrote: On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 2:56 PM, Owen

Re: IPv6 mistakes, was: Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer...

2011-02-18 Thread Iljitsch van Beijnum
On 17 feb 2011, at 17:35, George Bonser wrote: Considering v4 is likely to be around for another decade or two, getting Class E into general use seems easy enough to do. You really think people will be communicating over the public internet using IPv4 in 2031? It will take a long time before

Re: IPv6 mistakes, was: Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer...

2011-02-18 Thread Iljitsch van Beijnum
On 17 feb 2011, at 18:57, John Curran wrote: Actually, as I have noted before, the US DoD has contractually agreed to return to ARIN unneeded IPv4 address space if/when such becomes available, so that it may be used by the Internet community. How can they return stuff to ARIN that they got

Re: IPv6 mistakes, was: Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer...

2011-02-18 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Feb 18, 2011, at 5:54 AM, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote: On 17 feb 2011, at 18:57, John Curran wrote: Actually, as I have noted before, the US DoD has contractually agreed to return to ARIN unneeded IPv4 address space if/when such becomes available, so that it may be used by the Internet

Re: IPv6 mistakes, was: Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer...

2011-02-18 Thread Iljitsch van Beijnum
On 18 feb 2011, at 12:00, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote: How can they return stuff to ARIN that they got from IANA in the first place? ARIN seems to be getting the very long end of the legacy stick. But last time I checked, the United States is in the ARIN region. And ARIN did not exist when

Re: IPv6 mistakes, was: Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer...

2011-02-18 Thread Tore Anderson
* Iljitsch van Beijnum By the way, IANA only deals in /8s. However, a lot of people got legacy /16s or other non-/8 sizes, so some /8s that are marked legacy actually contain a lot of unused space. Each of those /8 is administered by a RIR, but it's unclear (to me at least) whether that

Re: IPv6 mistakes, was: Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer...

2011-02-18 Thread Iljitsch van Beijnum
On 18 feb 2011, at 12:36, Tore Anderson wrote: Each of those /8 is administered by a RIR, but it's unclear (to me at least) whether that means that RIR gets to give out that space in its region or not. The unused space in the ERX blocks were divided evenly between the RIRs a couple of years

Re: IPv6 mistakes, was: Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer...

2011-02-18 Thread Tore Anderson
* Iljitsch van Beijnum http://www.icann.org/correspondence/wilson-to-conrad-28jan08-en.pdf Please find attached a summary spreadsheet (Excel format) providing the agreed distribution of administrative responsibility Hit your Page Down button a couple of times, it's included right there in

Re: IPv6 mistakes, was: Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer...

2011-02-18 Thread Iljitsch van Beijnum
On 18 feb 2011, at 12:59, Tore Anderson wrote: Hit your Page Down button a couple of times, it's included right there in the PDF. I don't see anything that clears this up.

Re: IPv6 mistakes, was: Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer...

2011-02-18 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Feb 18, 2011, at 6:16 AM, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote: On 18 feb 2011, at 12:00, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote: How can they return stuff to ARIN that they got from IANA in the first place? ARIN seems to be getting the very long end of the legacy stick. But last time I checked, the United

Re: IPv6 mistakes, was: Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer...

2011-02-18 Thread Arturo Servin
Iljitsch, In deed there were ERX unused space that were divided among RIRs, I think it is referred as various ERX (pointed out by Tore). http://bgp.potaroo.net/stats/nro/various.html There were also ERX space transferred from ARIN DB (used to be in InterNIC's) to RIRs because

Re: IPv6 mistakes, was: Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer...

2011-02-18 Thread Iljitsch van Beijnum
On 18 feb 2011, at 14:10, Arturo Servin wrote: When you talk about unused legacy space are you talking about the various space or to the legacy space that is currently assigned but the holders just require part of it? Legacy space (A) = all the /8s marked as legacy by IANA. Used

Re: IPv6 mistakes, was: Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer...

2011-02-18 Thread Owen DeLong
On Feb 18, 2011, at 2:50 AM, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote: On 17 feb 2011, at 17:35, George Bonser wrote: Considering v4 is likely to be around for another decade or two, getting Class E into general use seems easy enough to do. You really think people will be communicating over the public

Re: IPv6 mistakes, was: Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer...

2011-02-18 Thread Owen DeLong
On Feb 18, 2011, at 2:54 AM, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote: On 17 feb 2011, at 18:57, John Curran wrote: Actually, as I have noted before, the US DoD has contractually agreed to return to ARIN unneeded IPv4 address space if/when such becomes available, so that it may be used by the Internet

Re: IPv6 mistakes, was: Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer...

2011-02-18 Thread Owen DeLong
On Feb 18, 2011, at 3:16 AM, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote: On 18 feb 2011, at 12:00, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote: How can they return stuff to ARIN that they got from IANA in the first place? ARIN seems to be getting the very long end of the legacy stick. But last time I checked, the

Re: IPv6 mistakes, was: Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer...

2011-02-17 Thread Iljitsch van Beijnum
On 11 feb 2011, at 17:51, William Herrin wrote: We can't backport ULA into IPv4 private addressing; there aren't enough addresses for the math to work. So we either make such folks jump through all kinds of hoops to get their networks to function, or we assign addresses that could otherwise

Re: IPv6 mistakes, was: Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer...

2011-02-17 Thread John Curran
On Feb 17, 2011, at 7:39 AM, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote: Not that it matters because it's too late now and it would only give us a few more months, but: Does the US government really need more than 150 million addresses, of which about half are not publically routed? Non-publically routed

Re: IPv6 mistakes, was: Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer...

2011-02-17 Thread Mark Andrews
In message 54cc2b0d-eae0-4b79-af19-20bbd233a...@istaff.org, John Curran writes: On Feb 17, 2011, at 7:39 AM, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote: Not that it matters because it's too late now and it would only give = us a few more months, but: =20 Does the US government really need more than 150

Re: IPv6 mistakes, was: Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer...

2011-02-17 Thread Owen DeLong
On Feb 17, 2011, at 4:39 AM, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote: On 11 feb 2011, at 17:51, William Herrin wrote: We can't backport ULA into IPv4 private addressing; there aren't enough addresses for the math to work. So we either make such folks jump through all kinds of hoops to get their

Re: IPv6 mistakes, was: Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer...

2011-02-17 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Thu, 17 Feb 2011 08:08:50 EST, John Curran said: Rather than saying 240/4 is unusable for another three years, perhaps the service provider community could make plain that this space needs to be made usable In other words, you're going to tell Granny she needs to upgrade to Windows 8

Re: IPv6 mistakes, was: Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer...

2011-02-17 Thread John Curran
On Feb 17, 2011, at 9:32 AM, valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: On Thu, 17 Feb 2011 08:08:50 EST, John Curran said: Rather than saying 240/4 is unusable for another three years, perhaps the service provider community could make plain that this space needs to be made usable In other words,

Re: IPv6 mistakes, was: Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer...

2011-02-17 Thread Jack Bates
On 2/17/2011 10:24 AM, Steven Bellovin wrote: It might be worth doing for ISP backbones, and for things like tunnel endpoints. For anything else, it's not worth the effort -- and I suspect never was. I think several people's point is that it may be useful for the CGN/LSN numbering and other

RE: IPv6 mistakes, was: Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer...

2011-02-17 Thread George Bonser
In other words, you're going to tell Granny she needs to upgrade to Windows 8 and/or replace her CPE because you couldn't get your act together and deploy IPv6 - even though her friends at the bridge club who are customers of your clued competitor didn't have to do a thing. Or tell her to

Re: IPv6 mistakes, was: Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer...

2011-02-17 Thread John Curran
On Feb 17, 2011, at 11:28 AM, Jack Bates wrote: On 2/17/2011 10:24 AM, Steven Bellovin wrote: It might be worth doing for ISP backbones, and for things like tunnel endpoints. For anything else, it's not worth the effort -- and I suspect never was. I think several people's point is that it

Re: IPv6 mistakes, was: Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer...

2011-02-17 Thread Cameron Byrne
On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 5:08 AM, John Curran jcur...@istaff.org wrote: On Feb 17, 2011, at 7:39 AM, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote: Not that it matters because it's too late now and it would only give us a few more months, but: Does the US government really need more than 150 million addresses,

Re: IPv6 mistakes, was: Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer...

2011-02-17 Thread Robert E. Seastrom
Mark Andrews ma...@isc.org writes: It's not usable as general purpose unicast. Both those drafts attempt to do that. http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-wilson-class-e-00 does not. Recommend you re-read. It would be possible to use it as restricted purpose unicast, i.e. to connect from a

RE: IPv6 mistakes, was: Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer...

2011-02-17 Thread George Bonser
If you want to go on a wild goose chase, start chasing down 240/4 and you might make some progress. As i have mentioned before, it was only after i gave up on 240/4 for private network numbering that i really earnestly took on IPv6-only as a strategy. Seeing 240/4 actually work would be

Re: IPv6 mistakes, was: Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer...

2011-02-17 Thread Robert E. Seastrom
Owen DeLong o...@delong.com writes: The DoD does not seem particularly anxious to announce or explain their usage of those blocks to the rest of the community. They have much larger quantities of significantly more sophisticated armaments than ARIN. I agree it would be nice if they would

Re: IPv6 mistakes, was: Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer...

2011-02-17 Thread Cameron Byrne
On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 9:46 AM, George Bonser gbon...@seven.com wrote: If you want to go on a wild goose chase, start chasing down 240/4 and you might make some progress. As i have mentioned before, it was only after i gave up on 240/4 for private network numbering that i really earnestly

Re: IPv6 mistakes, was: Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer...

2011-02-17 Thread John Curran
On Feb 17, 2011, at 12:48 PM, Cameron Byrne wrote: 240/4 has been enabled in Linux since 2.6.25 (applied on January 21, 2008 by David Miller) so that's like three years already. Yep, and that's great. Let me know when a Cisco 7600 will route a packet like this. So, it won't work for you.

RE: IPv6 mistakes, was: Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer...

2011-02-17 Thread George Bonser
240/4 has been enabled in Linux since 2.6.25 (applied on January 21, 2008 by David Miller) so that's like three years already. Yep, and that's great. Let me know when a Cisco 7600 will route a packet like this. Cameron Considering how small of a change it is, simply removing that

Re: IPv6 mistakes, was: Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer...

2011-02-17 Thread Cameron Byrne
On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 9:51 AM, John Curran jcur...@istaff.org wrote: On Feb 17, 2011, at 12:48 PM, Cameron Byrne wrote: 240/4 has been enabled in Linux since 2.6.25 (applied on January 21, 2008 by David Miller) so that's like three years already. Yep, and that's great.  Let me know when a

Re: IPv6 mistakes, was: Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer...

2011-02-17 Thread John Curran
On Feb 17, 2011, at 12:46 PM, Robert E. Seastrom wrote: Owen DeLong o...@delong.com writes: ... I agree it would be nice if they would voluntarily return whatever is appropriate to the community, but, You mean like they already did with 49/8, 50/8 (both formerly Joint Technical Command),

RE: IPv6 mistakes, was: Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer...

2011-02-17 Thread George Bonser
I am 100% pro making Class E defined as private unicast space. My only point is that people need to be realistic about the near term benefit. Yes, some linux may work. But, Microsoft and Cisco don't work today. Let's move it to not-reserved, but don't bet the farm on 240/4 solving

Re: IPv6 mistakes, was: Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer...

2011-02-17 Thread Cameron Byrne
On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 9:52 AM, George Bonser gbon...@seven.com wrote: 240/4 has been enabled in Linux since 2.6.25 (applied on January 21, 2008 by David Miller) so that's like three years already. Yep, and that's great.  Let me know when a Cisco 7600 will route a packet like this.

Re: IPv6 mistakes, was: Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer...

2011-02-17 Thread Jeffrey Lyon
On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 1:05 PM, Cameron Byrne cb.li...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 9:52 AM, George Bonser gbon...@seven.com wrote: 240/4 has been enabled in Linux since 2.6.25 (applied on January 21, 2008 by David Miller) so that's like three years already. Yep, and that's

RE: IPv6 mistakes, was: Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer...

2011-02-17 Thread George Bonser
I asked 2 years ago, and i was told it was not feasible. I escalated, still no-go, it was a deep problem. And they pointed to the IETF saying no on the above drafts as reason to not dig into the microcode or whatever to fix it. Ok, so that implies that it is burned into hardware and as it

Re: IPv6 mistakes, was: Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer...

2011-02-17 Thread David Israel
On 2/17/2011 1:31 PM, Jeffrey Lyon wrote: IPv6's momentum is a lot like a beach landing at Normandy. As in, large, dedicated, and nigh unstoppable, but fraught with peril and with a lot of mess and destruction to get through before it is done, or as in mainly opposed by aging crazy Nazis

Re: IPv6 mistakes, was: Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer...

2011-02-17 Thread Owen DeLong
On Feb 17, 2011, at 9:57 AM, John Curran wrote: On Feb 17, 2011, at 12:46 PM, Robert E. Seastrom wrote: Owen DeLong o...@delong.com writes: ... I agree it would be nice if they would voluntarily return whatever is appropriate to the community, but, You mean like they already did with

Re: IPv6 mistakes, was: Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer...

2011-02-17 Thread Owen DeLong
IPv6's momentum is a lot like a beach landing at Normandy. ?? Inevitably going to succeed, but, not without heavy losses in the process? Owen

Re: IPv6 mistakes, was: Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer...

2011-02-17 Thread Jeffrey Lyon
On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 2:14 PM, Owen DeLong o...@delong.com wrote: IPv6's momentum is a lot like a beach landing at Normandy. ?? Inevitably going to succeed, but, not without heavy losses in the process? Owen Yes, and also with mass fear and confusion at the beginning. -- Jeffrey

Re: IPv6 mistakes, was: Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer...

2011-02-17 Thread Jack Bates
On 2/17/2011 1:25 PM, Jeffrey Lyon wrote: On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 2:14 PM, Owen DeLongo...@delong.com wrote: IPv6's momentum is a lot like a beach landing at Normandy. ?? Inevitably going to succeed, but, not without heavy losses in the process? Owen Yes, and also with mass fear and

Re: IPv6 mistakes, was: Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer...

2011-02-17 Thread Jeffrey Lyon
On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 2:48 PM, Jack Bates jba...@brightok.net wrote: On 2/17/2011 1:25 PM, Jeffrey Lyon wrote: On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 2:14 PM, Owen DeLongo...@delong.com  wrote: IPv6's momentum is a lot like a beach landing at Normandy. ?? Inevitably going to succeed, but, not without

Re: IPv6 mistakes, was: Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer...

2011-02-17 Thread Mark Andrews
In message AANLkTi=uzeqb2dykxhvrxakfasphgfdmxjp1p-gj0...@mail.gmail.com, Came ron Byrne writes: On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 5:08 AM, John Curran jcur...@istaff.org wrote: On Feb 17, 2011, at 7:39 AM, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote: Not that it matters because it's too late now and it would only

Re: IPv6 mistakes, was: Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer...

2011-02-17 Thread Mark Andrews
In message 32ecc9cd-d927-4407-914c-751316c59...@istaff.org, John Curran write s: On Feb 17, 2011, at 12:48 PM, Cameron Byrne wrote: 240/4 has been enabled in Linux since 2.6.25 (applied on January 21, 2008 by David Miller) so that's like three years already. Yep, and that's great.

Re: IPv6 mistakes, was: Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer...

2011-02-17 Thread Steve Meuse
Mark Andrews expunged (ma...@isc.org): Or to ask CISCO to fix the box so it can route it? In many cases it is a minimal change. I don't know whether it is in Cisco 7600 They are in the business of selling new gear, not enabling features on EOL equipment :) -Steve

Re: IPv6 mistakes, was: Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer...

2011-02-17 Thread Owen DeLong
You can reflash CPE devices to support this that you can't reflash to support IPv6 as there is no space in the flash for the extra code. This should be minimal. A extra PPP/DHCP option and a check box to enable (default) / disable setting it. Reflashing most CPE amounts to forklifting.

Re: IPv6 mistakes, was: Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer...

2011-02-17 Thread Mark Andrews
In message 5f90644c-5457-460f-9bc3-70802b13a...@delong.com, Owen DeLong write s: Cisco is just one example. The fact is it will likely not work in cell phones, home gateways, windows PCs, Mac's, I understand some progress has been made... but choose your scope wisely and pick

Re: IPv6 mistakes, was: Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer...

2011-02-17 Thread Mark Andrews
In message 20110217203922.gb3...@mara.org, Steve Meuse writes: Mark Andrews expunged (ma...@isc.org): Or to ask CISCO to fix the box so it can route it? In many cases it is a minimal change. I don't know whether it is in Cisco 7600 They are in the business of selling new gear, not

Re: IPv6 mistakes, was: Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer...

2011-02-17 Thread Owen DeLong
On Feb 17, 2011, at 4:57 PM, Mark Andrews wrote: In message 20110217203639.ga3...@mara.org, Steve Meuse writes: George Bonser expunged (gbon...@seven.com): Considering the amount of linux-based CPE and other network hardware out there (including some Cisco gear), the extent to which it

Re: IPv6 mistakes, was: Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer...

2011-02-17 Thread Mark Andrews
In message 1dbdca5f-16ec-428d-bc46-3bd59a6f4...@delong.com, Owen DeLong write s: You can reflash CPE devices to support this that you can't reflash to support IPv6 as there is no space in the flash for the extra code. This should be minimal. A extra PPP/DHCP option and a check box to

Re: IPv6 mistakes, was: Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer...

2011-02-17 Thread Owen DeLong
On Feb 17, 2011, at 5:18 PM, Mark Andrews wrote: In message 1dbdca5f-16ec-428d-bc46-3bd59a6f4...@delong.com, Owen DeLong write s: You can reflash CPE devices to support this that you can't reflash to support IPv6 as there is no space in the flash for the extra code. This should be

Re: IPv6 mistakes, was: Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer...

2011-02-17 Thread Owen DeLong
On Feb 17, 2011, at 4:52 PM, Mark Andrews wrote: In message 5f90644c-5457-460f-9bc3-70802b13a...@delong.com, Owen DeLong write s: Cisco is just one example. The fact is it will likely not work in cell phones, home gateways, windows PCs, Mac's, I understand some progress has

RE: IPv6 mistakes, was: Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer...

2011-02-17 Thread George Bonser
But way way way more time to deploy the patched kernel than to forklift the devices with IPv6 capable ones which don't require patching the kernel, either. The kernel patch is, at best, an expensive stop gap. At worst, it is a counter productive waste of time. At best it's slightly

Re: IPv6 mistakes, was: Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer...

2011-02-17 Thread Mark Andrews
In message c02476ce-0544-430e-bb70-b752406ad...@delong.com, Owen DeLong write s: On Feb 17, 2011, at 5:18 PM, Mark Andrews wrote: =20 In message 1dbdca5f-16ec-428d-bc46-3bd59a6f4...@delong.com, Owen = DeLong write s: =20 You can reflash CPE devices to support this that you can't

Re: IPv6 mistakes, was: Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer...

2011-02-17 Thread Steve Meuse
Mark Andrews expunged (ma...@isc.org): An how many of those embedded linux devices are running a 2.4 kernel? Just lo ok at xx-wrt as an example. If you have a certain chipset, 2.4 is your only o ption. And the work to patch that kernel is minimal if it doesn't already support it.

Re: IPv6 mistakes, was: Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer...

2011-02-17 Thread Steve Meuse
Mark Andrews expunged (ma...@isc.org): Remember a lot of this problem is the direct result of vendors not acting soon enough and that includes CISCO. Asking those vendors to do a bit of work to fixup the results of their bad decisions is not unreasonable. They can't fix hardware limitations

Re: IPv6 mistakes, was: Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer...

2011-02-17 Thread Mark Andrews
In message 20110218020622.ga10...@mara.org, Steve Meuse writes: Mark Andrews expunged (ma...@isc.org): An how many of those embedded linux devices are running a 2.4 kernel? Jus t lo ok at xx-wrt as an example. If you have a certain chipset, 2.4 is your on ly o ption. And the

Re: IPv6 mistakes, was: Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer...

2011-02-17 Thread Steve Meuse
Mark Andrews expunged (ma...@isc.org): I think grandma is quite capable of doing it. She just needs to be informed that it needs to be done. On my planet (Earth), this isn't likely ever happen. -Steve

RE: IPv6 mistakes, was: Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer...

2011-02-17 Thread Frank Bulk
:56 PM To: Owen DeLong Cc: NANOG list; John Curran Subject: Re: IPv6 mistakes, was: Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer... snip I think grandma is quite capable of doing it. She just needs to be informed that it needs to be done. Most people that are scared of doing it themselves have someone

Re: IPv6 mistakes, was: Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer...

2011-02-17 Thread Mark Andrews
In message 00bc01cbcf19$8b3f13d0$a1bd3b70$@iname.com, Frank Bulk writes: You're invited to work my helpdesk for a week. I'd even pay you. It's not just flashing, it's reconfiguring every wireless device in the home (printer, Wii, Kindle, laptop (that's not home right, will be when Sally

Re: IPv6 mistakes, was: Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer...

2011-02-14 Thread Jack Bates
Luckily, they do. Only the smart DSLAMs had issues, and they even blocked IP protocol 41. haha On 2/13/2011 4:44 PM, Frank Bulk wrote: Fine approach as long as the DSLAMs and CPE allow ether type 0x86DD to pass.

RE: IPv6 mistakes, was: Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer...

2011-02-13 Thread Frank Bulk
Fine approach as long as the DSLAMs and CPE allow ether type 0x86DD to pass. Frank -Original Message- From: Jack Bates [mailto:jba...@brightok.net] Sent: Friday, February 11, 2011 4:01 PM To: Ricky Beam Cc: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: IPv6 mistakes, was: Re: Looking for an IPv6

Re: IPv6 mistakes, was: Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer...

2011-02-12 Thread Thomas Habets
On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 16:02, Ricky Beam jfb...@gmail.com wrote: i.e. cellphones... the two largest groups there (iPhone and Android) support IPv6 already. No they don't. Only Symbian and Maemo (MeeGo?) supports IPv6 *on the mobile side*. Not android, not iphone. Unless this has changed in

Re: IPv6 mistakes, was: Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer...

2011-02-12 Thread Andre Keller
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 My Milestone (android 2.1) uses IPv6 when connecting to a WLAN with stateless auto configuration enabled... (well at least basic connectivity when browsing web pages... Not sure about the rest...) Am 12.02.2011 16:49, schrieb Thomas Habets: On

Re: IPv6 mistakes, was: Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer...

2011-02-12 Thread Jack Bates
On 2/12/2011 10:34 AM, Andre Keller wrote: My Milestone (android 2.1) uses IPv6 when connecting to a WLAN with stateless auto configuration enabled... Am 12.02.2011 16:49, schrieb Thomas Habets: *on the mobile side*.

Re: IPv6 mistakes, was: Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer...

2011-02-12 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
On Sat, 12 Feb 2011, Thomas Habets wrote: Really. Exactly. Can we PLEASE kill the myth that Android and iPhone has IPv6 support for mobile side. PLEASE. None do, and there are no publically available roadmaps when this might happen on either OSes. There are exactly two types of devices

Re: IPv6 mistakes, was: Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer...

2011-02-12 Thread Lamar Owen
On Friday, February 11, 2011 05:33:37 pm valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: So riddle me this - what CPE stuff were they giving out in 2009 that was already v6-able? (and actually *tested* as being v6-able, rather than It's supposed to work but since we don't do v6 on the live net, nobody's ever

Re: IPv6 mistakes, was: Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer...

2011-02-12 Thread Cameron Byrne
On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 8:53 AM, Mikael Abrahamsson swm...@swm.pp.se wrote: On Sat, 12 Feb 2011, Thomas Habets wrote: Really. Exactly. Can we PLEASE kill the myth that Android and iPhone has IPv6 support for mobile side. PLEASE. None do, and there are no publically available roadmaps when

Re: IPv6 mistakes, was: Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer...

2011-02-12 Thread Doug Barton
On 02/12/2011 09:26 AM, Lamar Owen wrote: While I have a few WRT54G's lying around, I've never tried IPv6 on them, and would find it interesting if anyone has. http://www.tunnelbroker.net/forums/index.php?topic=106.0 -- Nothin' ever doesn't change, but nothin' changes much.

Re: [v6z] Re: IPv6 mistakes, was: Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer...

2011-02-12 Thread Jim Gettys
On 02/12/2011 02:32 PM, Scott Howard wrote: On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 9:26 AM, Lamar Owenlo...@pari.edu wrote: While I have a few WRT54G's lying around, I've never tried IPv6 on them, and would find it interesting if anyone has. I used a WRT54G running DD-WRT for some time with a HE IPv6

Re: [v6z] Re: IPv6 mistakes, was: Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer...

2011-02-12 Thread Scott Howard
On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 9:26 AM, Lamar Owen lo...@pari.edu wrote: While I have a few WRT54G's lying around, I've never tried IPv6 on them, and would find it interesting if anyone has. I used a WRT54G running DD-WRT for some time with a HE IPv6 tunnel (now replaced with a Cisco 877, but not

Re: IPv6 mistakes, was: Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer...

2011-02-12 Thread Laurent GUERBY
On Sat, 2011-02-12 at 09:37 -0800, Cameron Byrne wrote: Mikael and I both have 3G networks with demonstrated IPv6 capabilities, perhaps people should request Google drive Android IPv6 support. Please point your IPv6 interest here http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=3389 and

Re: IPv6 mistakes, was: Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer...

2011-02-12 Thread Philip Dorr
That is on WiFi, NOT cellular. On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 2:44 PM, Laurent GUERBY laur...@guerby.net wrote: On Sat, 2011-02-12 at 09:37 -0800, Cameron Byrne wrote: Mikael and I both have 3G networks with demonstrated IPv6 capabilities, perhaps people should request Google drive Android IPv6

Re: IPv6 mistakes, was: Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer...

2011-02-11 Thread Arturo Servin
On 11 Feb 2011, at 04:51, Ricky Beam wrote: On Fri, 11 Feb 2011 00:31:21 -0500, David Conrad d...@virtualized.org wrote: Amusingly enough, I personally (along with others) made arguments along these lines back in 1995 or so when the IAB was coming out with

Re: IPv6 mistakes, was: Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer...

2011-02-11 Thread Josh Smith
On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 6:07 AM, Arturo Servin arturo.ser...@gmail.com wrote: On 11 Feb 2011, at 04:51, Ricky Beam wrote: On Fri, 11 Feb 2011 00:31:21 -0500, David Conrad d...@virtualized.org wrote: Amusingly enough, I personally (along with others) made arguments along these lines back

Re: IPv6 mistakes, was: Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer...

2011-02-11 Thread Scott Helms
I don't know about that. Yes, v4 will be around for a long time but considering the oligopolies we have in both eyeball and content networks, ones a dozen or so very large networks switch, there is the vast majority of Internet traffic right there. It will be around for a very long time

Re: IPv6 mistakes, was: Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer...

2011-02-11 Thread Alexander Harrowell
On Friday 11 February 2011 15:00:57 Scott Helms wrote: While Facebook working over IPv6 will be a big deal you won't get all of their traffic since a significant fraction of that traffic is from mobile devices which are going to take much longer than PCs to get to using IPv6 in large

Re: IPv6 mistakes, was: Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer...

2011-02-11 Thread Ricky Beam
On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 10:00 AM, Scott Helms khe...@ispalliance.net wrote: Agreed, V4 traffic levels are likely to drop and stay at low levels for decades. I seriously doubt v4 traffic is going to fall off a cliff. That would require IPv6 adoption on a large scale over a relatively short

Re: IPv6 mistakes, was: Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer...

2011-02-11 Thread William Herrin
On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 10:46 PM, Ricky Beam jfb...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, 10 Feb 2011 11:43:50 -0500, Matthew Kaufman matt...@matthew.at wrote: There is no one universal global routing table. They probably appear in someone's routing table, somewhere... just not yours. Using public

RE: IPv6 mistakes, was: Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer...

2011-02-11 Thread George Bonser
On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 10:00 AM, Scott Helms wrote: Agreed, V4 traffic levels are likely to drop and stay at low levels for decades. I seriously doubt v4 traffic is going to fall off a cliff. That would require IPv6 adoption on a large scale over a relatively short period. The thing

Re: IPv6 mistakes, was: Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer...

2011-02-11 Thread Arturo Servin
Lucky you. .as On 11 Feb 2011, at 11:42, Josh Smith wrote: On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 6:07 AM, Arturo Servin arturo.ser...@gmail.com wrote: On 11 Feb 2011, at 04:51, Ricky Beam wrote: On Fri, 11 Feb 2011 00:31:21 -0500, David Conrad d...@virtualized.org wrote: Amusingly

Re: IPv6 mistakes, was: Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer...

2011-02-11 Thread Owen DeLong
On Feb 11, 2011, at 7:00 AM, Scott Helms wrote: I don't know about that. Yes, v4 will be around for a long time but considering the oligopolies we have in both eyeball and content networks, ones a dozen or so very large networks switch, there is the vast majority of Internet traffic right

Re: IPv6 mistakes, was: Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer...

2011-02-11 Thread Scott Helms
Comcast, nor the other large MSOs, are not as monolithic as they may appear from the outside. In most cases the large MSOs are divided into regions that are more or less autonomous and that doesn't count the outlier properties that haven't been brought into the fold of the region they are

Re: IPv6 mistakes, was: Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer...

2011-02-11 Thread Cameron Byrne
On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 11:56 AM, Owen DeLong o...@delong.com wrote: On Feb 11, 2011, at 7:00 AM, Scott Helms wrote: I don't know about that.  Yes, v4 will be around for a long time but considering the oligopolies we have in both eyeball and content networks, ones a dozen or so very large

Re: IPv6 mistakes, was: Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer...

2011-02-11 Thread Owen DeLong
I think you'll be in for a surprise here, too. The 4G transition is already underway. For the vendors where 4G means LTE, IPv6 is the native protocol and IPv4 requires a certain amount of hackery to operate. In the WiMax case (Gee, thanks, SPRINT), things are a bit murkier, but, I

Re: IPv6 mistakes, was: Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer...

2011-02-11 Thread Ricky Beam
On Fri, 11 Feb 2011 12:20:59 -0500, George Bonser gbon...@seven.com wrote: The thing is that a very few networks account for a very large amount of traffic. Traffic has to have two end points. Just because the content source supports IPv6 does not mean the content request will be. That's

Re: IPv6 mistakes, was: Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer...

2011-02-11 Thread Michael Dillon
Using public address space for private networking is a gross misuse of the resource. No it is not. IP was invented to enable internetworking. The IPv4 address registry was set up so that anyone who wanted to use IP for internetworking could get unique addresses. The key here, is

Re: IPv6 mistakes, was: Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer...

2011-02-11 Thread Cameron Byrne
On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 1:00 PM, Owen DeLong o...@delong.com wrote: I think you'll be in for a surprise here, too. The 4G transition is already underway. For the vendors where 4G means LTE, IPv6 is the native protocol and IPv4 requires a certain amount of hackery to operate. In the WiMax

Re: IPv6 mistakes, was: Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer...

2011-02-11 Thread Michael Dillon
One example I heard was a generic financial exchange connected to perhaps a hundred other companies. Those companies also connect to the Internet but the exchange itself does not. It's valuable for the exchange to use addressing which will not conflict with any of its customers' RFC1918 use

Re: IPv6 mistakes, was: Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer...

2011-02-11 Thread Jack Bates
On 2/11/2011 3:41 PM, Ricky Beam wrote: In bridge mode, any modem will do. It's when the modem is also the router (which is most cases today) that it will need attention to support IPv6. (in bridge mode, you'll have to fix whatever it's plugged into, but that's the customer's problem... off

RE: IPv6 mistakes, was: Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer...

2011-02-11 Thread George Bonser
Fixing the source (be it Facebook, Youtube, or netflix) is rather simple in concept -- it's just one network, and doesn't require touching millions of devices. Transit networks are hit-n-miss, but is becoming less of a burden. The CPE on the other hand is a whole other mess... there are

Re: IPv6 mistakes, was: Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer...

2011-02-11 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Fri, 11 Feb 2011 14:21:49 PST, George Bonser said: That is a different question. People are always moving, for example, turning in their old CPE and getting new. Old ones break and need to be replaced with a new one. Let's say the gear they have been handing out over the past couple of

Re: IPv6 mistakes, was: Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer...

2011-02-11 Thread Benson Schliesser
On Feb 11, 2011, at 3:44 PM, Michael Dillon wrote: Not true. Two of my former employers went to ARIN every year or two and received blocks around a /16 in size, specifically for use on global IP networks that did not intend to ever announce those addresses on the Internet. There are

RE: IPv6 mistakes, was: Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer...

2011-02-11 Thread George Bonser
So riddle me this - what CPE stuff were they giving out in 2009 that was already v6-able? (and actually *tested* as being v6-able, rather than It's supposed to work but since we don't do v6 on the live net, nobody's ever actually *tried* it...) I would venture to say the same as today's CPE

Re: IPv6 mistakes, was: Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer...

2011-02-11 Thread Owen DeLong
There is no hackery require to make IPv4 work in LTE. LTE supports IPv4, IPv6, and IPv4v6 bearers all the same... its just an option from the core perspective, handset / chipset makers like to limit the options to keep cost and variability down. My understanding (admittedly second hand,

Re: IPv6 mistakes, was: Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer...

2011-02-11 Thread Owen DeLong
On Feb 11, 2011, at 1:41 PM, Ricky Beam wrote: On Fri, 11 Feb 2011 12:20:59 -0500, George Bonser gbon...@seven.com wrote: The thing is that a very few networks account for a very large amount of traffic. Traffic has to have two end points. Just because the content source supports IPv6

Re: IPv6 mistakes, was: Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer...

2011-02-11 Thread Jack Bates
On 2/11/2011 5:34 PM, Owen DeLong wrote: No, you grossly underestimate the motivation that will exist to get the eyeball networks v6 capable. eyeball networks... we hack and patch them together. Silly putty is very useful. IPv6 rollouts are no different. Just more silly putty. IPv4

Re: IPv6 mistakes, was: Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer...

2011-02-11 Thread Tom Limoncelli
On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 2:56 PM, Owen DeLong o...@delong.com wrote: I think you'll be in for a surprise here, too. The 4G transition is already underway. For the vendors where 4G means LTE, IPv6 is the native protocol and IPv4 requires a certain amount of hackery to operate. I'm writing an

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