[107085] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Native v6 with Level(3)?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay Hennigan)
Tue Aug 26 01:47:09 2008
Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2008 22:47:00 -0700
From: Jay Hennigan <jay@west.net>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <75cb24520808252233y5fb8e46v874e72e33d8db09c@mail.gmail.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
Christopher Morrow wrote:
> On 8/22/08, Kyle Murray <kyle@forest.net> wrote:
>> Here is the response I got from L3 when I inquired about IPV6:
>>
>> "The answer to your questions is "no", we have not yet inplemented IPV6 for
>> our customers yet. IPV4 is the de facto on our backbone nad alledge router
>> on which customers connectc."
>>
>> Poor spelling aside, it seems they have not implemented it yet. If someone
>> manages to get them to implement, I would really like to hear about it.
>>
>
> wow that is odd.. since stewart bamford has been off giving ipv6
> deployment talks to various conferences (including this one:
> http://www.nanog.org/mtg-0510/bamford.html )
>
> maybe L3's support staff should check their internal documentation??
> Slide 17 says: "Deployment completed Q3 2005"... so, they apparently
> have it, can get it to you and do 6PE (or did 6PE a bit ago). Maybe
> ask again and aim the nay-sayer to the nanog preso and ask them to
> call stewart up directly?
We had the same issue when we inquired initially. Apparently Level(1)
support at Level(3) has Level(0) clue as to their capabilities.
I responded to Kyle off-list as to the email address for getting to the
people with the answers. Stewart is still on the team and they had us
up and running on IPv6 within a couple of days once I contacted the
right people.
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