[103112] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Transition Planning for IPv6 as mandated by the US Govt
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joe Abley)
Tue Mar 18 13:46:32 2008
Cc: <nanog@merit.edu>
From: Joe Abley <jabley@ca.afilias.info>
To: "<michael.dillon@bt.com>" <michael.dillon@bt.com>
In-Reply-To: <D03E4899F2FB3D4C8464E8C76B3B68B0022B8446@E03MVC4-UKBR.domain1.systemhost.net>
Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2008 08:25:30 -0400
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On 17-Mar-2008, at 06:07, <michael.dillon@bt.com>
<michael.dillon@bt.com> wrote:
>> If you're providing content or network services on v6 and you
>> don't have both a Teredo and 6to4 relay, you should - there
>> are more v6 users on those two than there are on native
>> v6[1]. Talk to me and I'll give you a pre-built FreeBSD image
>> that does it, boot off compact flash or hard drives. Soekris
>> (~$350USD, incl. power supply and CF card), or regular
>> server/whatever PC.
>
> Pardon me for interfering with your lucrative business here,
> but anyone contemplating running a Teredo relay and 6to4 relay
> should first understand the capacity issues before buying a
> little embedded box to stick in their network.
Do you imagine that Soekris are giving Nathan kick-backs for
mentioning the price of their boxes on NANOG? :-)
I'm sure for many small networks a Soekris box would do fine. For the
record, FreeBSD also runs on more capable hardware.
Joe
