[103209] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IPv6 tunnel for ISP sought
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Seth Mattinen)
Sat Mar 22 17:17:12 2008
Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2008 14:13:54 -0700
From: Seth Mattinen <sethm@rollernet.us>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <E6107C99-5704-4CFD-BCC5-30AC4815D0BC@dragondata.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
Kevin Day wrote:
>
> Hurricane Electric was offering BGP over tunnels at one point, but I
> don't know if they still are. Sprint made an announcement years ago that
> they were offering free tunnels with BGP and treated them more or less
> like customer ports, but I don't know if that's still happening. If your
> use is really small, we've given some free "tunnels as customers" to a
> few ISPs, but I don't know if the level of support I'm offering is
> really what you're looking for either.
>
I can vouch that Sprint is still offering IPv6 with BGP over tunnels.
I'm currently announcing my /48 with it, but I don't use it too much
beyond testing/playing. I'm still waiting for it to become dual-stack,
so if anyone from Sprint is reading this... ;)
~Seth