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: [arin-ppml] NAT444 rumors (was Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer...)

2011-02-22 Thread Benson Schliesser
On Feb 21, 2011, at 10:16 PM, Chris Grundemann wrote: On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 19:08, Dan Wing dw...@cisco.com wrote: Its title, filename, abstract, and introduction all say the problems are specific to NAT444. Which is untrue. I just re-read the filename, abstract and introduction, and

Re: [arin-ppml] NAT444 rumors (was Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer...)

2011-02-22 Thread Randy Bush
[ arin cesspool removed from cc: as i can not post there anyway ] There seems to be a position, taken by others on these lists, that IPv6 is the only address family that matters. Interestingly, this position seems to be most pronounced from people not involved in operating production

Re: [arin-ppml] NAT444 rumors (was Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer...)

2011-02-22 Thread Owen DeLong
On Feb 22, 2011, at 12:29 AM, Benson Schliesser wrote: On Feb 21, 2011, at 10:16 PM, Chris Grundemann wrote: On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 19:08, Dan Wing dw...@cisco.com wrote: Its title, filename, abstract, and introduction all say the problems are specific to NAT444. Which is untrue.

RE: [arin-ppml] NAT444 rumors (was Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer...)

2011-02-22 Thread Dan Wing
-Original Message- From: Chris Grundemann [mailto:cgrundem...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, February 21, 2011 8:17 PM To: Dan Wing Cc: Owen DeLong; Benson Schliesser; NANOG list; ARIN-PPML List Subject: Re: [arin-ppml] NAT444 rumors (was Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer...) On Mon

Re: [arin-ppml] NAT444 rumors (was Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer...)

2011-02-22 Thread Benson Schliesser
On Feb 22, 2011, at 3:14 AM, Randy Bush wrote: There seems to be a position, taken by others on these lists, that IPv6 is the only address family that matters. Interestingly, this position seems to be most pronounced from people not involved in operating production networks. excuse me!

Re: [arin-ppml] NAT444 rumors (was Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer...)

2011-02-22 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Tue, 22 Feb 2011 02:29:23 CST, Benson Schliesser said: There seems to be a position, taken by others on these lists, that IPv6 is the only address family that matters. Interestingly, this position seems to be most pronounced from people not involved in operating production networks. most

Re: [arin-ppml] NAT444 rumors (was Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer...)

2011-02-22 Thread Benson Schliesser
On Feb 22, 2011, at 3:54 PM, valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: On Tue, 22 Feb 2011 02:29:23 CST, Benson Schliesser said: There seems to be a position, taken by others on these lists, that IPv6 is the only address family that matters. Interestingly, this position seems to be most pronounced

Re: [arin-ppml] NAT444 rumors (was Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer...)

2011-02-22 Thread Benson Schliesser
On Feb 22, 2011, at 4:42 PM, Tony Hain wrote: Seriously, some people will not move until the path they are on is already burning, which is why they did nothing over the last 5 years despite knowing that the IANA pool was exhausting much faster than they had wanted to believe. It took getting

Re: [arin-ppml] NAT444 rumors (was Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer...)

2011-02-22 Thread Randy Bush
There seems to be a position, taken by others on these lists, that IPv6 is the only address family that matters. Interestingly, this position seems to be most pronounced from people not involved in operating production networks. excuse me! Hi, Randy. I didn't mean to deny you exist;

Re: [arin-ppml] NAT444 rumors (was Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer...)

2011-02-22 Thread Benson Schliesser
On Feb 22, 2011, at 6:29 PM, Randy Bush wrote: There seems to be a position, taken by others on these lists, that IPv6 is the only address family that matters. Interestingly, this position seems to be most pronounced from people not involved in operating production networks. excuse me!

Re: [arin-ppml] NAT444 rumors (was Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer...)

2011-02-21 Thread Owen DeLong
On Feb 20, 2011, at 10:35 PM, Jimmy Hess wrote: On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 2:24 AM, Zed Usser zzu...@yahoo.com wrote: Basic Internet services will work (web browsing, email, Facebook, Youtube,...), but: Actually, many facebook and youtube features will also be degraded. - Less torrenting -

RE: [arin-ppml] NAT444 rumors (was Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer...)

2011-02-21 Thread Dan Wing
-Original Message- From: arin-ppml-boun...@arin.net [mailto:arin-ppml-boun...@arin.net] On Behalf Of Chris Grundemann Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2011 5:55 PM To: Benson Schliesser Cc: NANOG list; ARIN-PPML List Subject: Re: [arin-ppml] NAT444 rumors (was Re: Looking for an IPv6

Re: [arin-ppml] NAT444 rumors (was Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer...)

2011-02-21 Thread Owen DeLong
-ppml] NAT444 rumors (was Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer...) On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 14:17, Benson Schliesser bens...@queuefull.net wrote: If you have more experience (not including rumors) that suggests otherwise, I'd very much like to hear about it. I'm open to the possibility that NAT444

Re: [arin-ppml] NAT444 rumors (was Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer...)

2011-02-21 Thread Randy Bush
http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-donley-nat444-impacts-01 That document conflates problems of NAT444 with problems of NAT44 with problems of bandwidth starvation with problems of CGN. it may require a delicate palate to differentiate the different flavors of bleep randy

RE: [arin-ppml] NAT444 rumors (was Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer...)

2011-02-21 Thread Dan Wing
-Original Message- From: Owen DeLong [mailto:o...@delong.com] Sent: Monday, February 21, 2011 12:59 PM To: Dan Wing Cc: 'Chris Grundemann'; 'Benson Schliesser'; 'NANOG list'; 'ARIN-PPML List' Subject: Re: [arin-ppml] NAT444 rumors (was Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer

RE: [arin-ppml] NAT444 rumors (was Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer...)

2011-02-21 Thread Dan Wing
http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-donley-nat444-impacts-01 That document conflates problems of NAT444 with problems of NAT44 with problems of bandwidth starvation with problems of CGN. it may require a delicate palate to differentiate the different flavors of bleep Running out of

Re: [arin-ppml] NAT444 rumors (was Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer...)

2011-02-20 Thread Zed Usser
--- On Sun, 2/20/11, Owen DeLong o...@delong.com wrote: Oh, I expect CGN/LSN to be connectivity of last resort, no question. Ok, so let's just deploy it and not even try to fix it? Even when it is a required functionality for IPv6-only hosts to access the IPv4 domain? That'll go down real

Re: [arin-ppml] NAT444 rumors (was Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer...)

2011-02-20 Thread Owen DeLong
On Feb 20, 2011, at 3:27 AM, Zed Usser wrote: --- On Sun, 2/20/11, Owen DeLong o...@delong.com wrote: Oh, I expect CGN/LSN to be connectivity of last resort, no question. Ok, so let's just deploy it and not even try to fix it? Even when it is a required functionality for IPv6-only hosts

Re: [arin-ppml] NAT444 rumors (was Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer...)

2011-02-20 Thread Jimmy Hess
On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 2:24 AM, Zed Usser zzu...@yahoo.com wrote: Basic Internet services will work (web browsing, email, Facebook, Youtube,...), but: - Less torrenting - Less Netflix watching - Less FTP downloads - Less video streaming in general (webcams, etc.) You might take a hit on

Re: [arin-ppml] NAT444 rumors (was Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer...)

2011-02-19 Thread Zed Usser
--- On Sat, 2/19/11, Owen DeLong o...@delong.com wrote:   Are you willing to bet that IPv4 address exhaustion will not result in IPv6-only hosts before we run out of meaningful IPv4-only hosts? No, but, I am willing to bet that we will not meaningfully make the situation better for those

Re: [arin-ppml] NAT444 rumors (was Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer...)

2011-02-19 Thread Owen DeLong
On Feb 19, 2011, at 12:41 AM, Zed Usser wrote: --- On Sat, 2/19/11, Owen DeLong o...@delong.com wrote: Are you willing to bet that IPv4 address exhaustion will not result in IPv6-only hosts before we run out of meaningful IPv4-only hosts? No, but, I am willing to bet that we will not

Re: [arin-ppml] NAT444 rumors (was Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer...)

2011-02-19 Thread Zed Usser
--- On Sun, 2/20/11, Owen DeLong o...@delong.com wrote:   So, in essence, you are advocating not to interconnect the IPv4-only and IPv6-only domains in any way? I'm advocating not depending on any such interaction working as it's pretty clear that the available solution set is fairly broken.

Re: [arin-ppml] NAT444 rumors (was Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer...)

2011-02-19 Thread Owen DeLong
On Feb 19, 2011, at 11:31 AM, Zed Usser wrote: --- On Sun, 2/20/11, Owen DeLong o...@delong.com wrote: So, in essence, you are advocating not to interconnect the IPv4-only and IPv6-only domains in any way? I'm advocating not depending on any such interaction working as it's pretty clear

Re: [arin-ppml] NAT444 rumors (was Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer...)

2011-02-18 Thread Zed Usser
On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 14:17, Chris Grundemann wrote: In case you have not already found this: http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-donley-nat444-impacts-01 There's a bit of critique on the NAT444 document on the BEHAVE IETF WG list. draft-donley-nat444-impacts-01 is somewhat misleading. It

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: [arin-ppml] NAT444 rumors (was Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer...)

2011-02-18 Thread Iljitsch van Beijnum
On 18 feb 2011, at 9:24, Zed Usser wrote: Basic Internet services will work (web browsing, email, Facebook, Youtube,...), but: - Less torrenting - Less Netflix watching - Less FTP downloads - Less video streaming in general (webcams, etc.) You forget: - no IPv6 tunnels Deploying NAT444

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: [arin-ppml] NAT444 rumors (was Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer...)

2011-02-18 Thread Andrew Yourtchenko
On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 9:24 AM, Zed Usser zzu...@yahoo.com wrote: Now correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't some kind of NAT/PAT going to be required to join the IPv4 and IPv6 domains in all foreseeable futures? If so, aren't we going to have to deal with these issues in any case? I'd

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: [arin-ppml] NAT444 rumors (was Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer...)

2011-02-18 Thread Owen DeLong
On Feb 18, 2011, at 12:24 AM, Zed Usser wrote: On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 14:17, Chris Grundemann wrote: In case you have not already found this: http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-donley-nat444-impacts-01 There's a bit of critique on the NAT444 document on the BEHAVE IETF WG list.

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: [arin-ppml] NAT444 rumors (was Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer...)

2011-02-18 Thread Owen DeLong
On Feb 18, 2011, at 3:33 AM, Andrew Yourtchenko wrote: On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 9:24 AM, Zed Usser zzu...@yahoo.com wrote: Now correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't some kind of NAT/PAT going to be required to join the IPv4 and IPv6 domains in all foreseeable futures? If so, aren't we going

Re: [arin-ppml] NAT444 rumors (was Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer...)

2011-02-18 Thread Zed Usser
--- On Fri, 2/18/11, Owen DeLong o...@delong.com wrote: Now correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't some kind of NAT/PAT going to be required to join the IPv4 and IPv6 domains in all foreseeable futures? If so, aren't we going to have to deal with these issues in any case? No, we need to move

Re: [arin-ppml] NAT444 rumors (was Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer...)

2011-02-18 Thread Owen DeLong
On Feb 18, 2011, at 7:34 AM, Zed Usser wrote: --- On Fri, 2/18/11, Owen DeLong o...@delong.com wrote: Now correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't some kind of NAT/PAT going to be required to join the IPv4 and IPv6 domains in all foreseeable futures? If so, aren't we going to have to deal with

Re: [arin-ppml] NAT444 rumors (was Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer...)

2011-02-18 Thread Jeff Wheeler
On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 10:34 AM, Zed Usser zzu...@yahoo.com wrote:  Reduce, yes. Remove, no. Without a global cutoff date for the IPv6 transition, it's not like IPv4 is going to disappear overnight. Furthermore, without any IPv4/IPv6 translation, the first IPv6 only networks are going to

Re: [arin-ppml] NAT444 rumors (was Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer...)

2011-02-18 Thread Zed Usser
--- On Sat, 2/19/11, Owen DeLong o...@delong.com wrote: You only need to solve those problems to the extent that there are meaningful things still trapped in an IPv4-only world. Are you willing to bet that IPv4 address exhaustion will not result in IPv6-only hosts before we run out of

Re: [arin-ppml] NAT444 rumors (was Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer...)

2011-02-18 Thread Benson Schliesser
On Feb 18, 2011, at 8:27 AM, Owen DeLong wrote: On Feb 18, 2011, at 12:24 AM, Zed Usser wrote: There's a bit of critique on the NAT444 document on the BEHAVE IETF WG list. draft-donley-nat444-impacts-01 is somewhat misleading. It claims to analyze NAT444, but it really analyzes what

Re: [arin-ppml] NAT444 rumors (was Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer...)

2011-02-18 Thread Owen DeLong
On Feb 18, 2011, at 12:50 PM, Zed Usser wrote: --- On Sat, 2/19/11, Owen DeLong o...@delong.com wrote: You only need to solve those problems to the extent that there are meaningful things still trapped in an IPv4-only world. Are you willing to bet that IPv4 address exhaustion will not

Re: [arin-ppml] NAT444 rumors (was Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer...)

2011-02-18 Thread Owen DeLong
On Feb 18, 2011, at 2:26 PM, Benson Schliesser wrote: On Feb 18, 2011, at 8:27 AM, Owen DeLong wrote: On Feb 18, 2011, at 12:24 AM, Zed Usser wrote: There's a bit of critique on the NAT444 document on the BEHAVE IETF WG list. draft-donley-nat444-impacts-01 is somewhat misleading. It

Re: [arin-ppml] NAT444 rumors (was Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer...)

2011-02-18 Thread Benson Schliesser
On Feb 18, 2011, at 4:46 PM, Owen DeLong wrote: On Feb 18, 2011, at 2:26 PM, Benson Schliesser wrote: The document is titled Assessing the Impact of NAT444 on Network Applications and it claims to discuss NAT444 issues. However, it conflates NAT444 with CGN. And it is often used as an

Re: [arin-ppml] NAT444 rumors (was Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer...)

2011-02-18 Thread Chris Grundemann
On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 16:48, Benson Schliesser bens...@queuefull.net wrote: I agree that it's an imperfect analogy, so I won't bother defending it. :)   But my point remains:  NAT444 is a deployment scenario, which includes a CGN element.  Other deployment scenarios that also include a CGN

Re: [arin-ppml] NAT444 rumors (was Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer...)

2011-02-18 Thread Owen DeLong
On Feb 18, 2011, at 5:59 PM, Chris Grundemann wrote: On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 16:48, Benson Schliesser bens...@queuefull.net wrote: I agree that it's an imperfect analogy, so I won't bother defending it. :) But my point remains: NAT444 is a deployment scenario, which includes a CGN

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: [arin-ppml] NAT444 rumors (was Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer...)

2011-02-17 Thread Chris Grundemann
On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 14:17, Benson Schliesser bens...@queuefull.net wrote: If you have more experience (not including rumors) that suggests otherwise, I'd very much like to hear about it.  I'm open to the possibility that NAT444 breaks stuff - that feels right in my gut - but I haven't

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

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