[124716] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: legacy /8
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (sthaug@nethelp.no)
Sun Apr 4 10:32:03 2010
Date: Sun, 04 Apr 2010 16:31:25 +0200 (CEST)
To: tore.anderson@redpill-linpro.com
From: sthaug@nethelp.no
In-Reply-To: <4BB8947E.3080502@redpill-linpro.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
> > Do you have an actual example of a vendor, today, charging a higher
> > license fee for IPv6 support?
>
> Juniper. If you want to run OSPFv3 on their layer 3 switches, you need
> a quite expensive "advanced" licence. OSPFv2, on the other hand, is
> included in the base licence.
>
> Our IPv6 topology is largely based on static routes because of this.
> There's no customers that are willing to pay extra for IPv6 support at
> the moment, hence we cannot justify the extra cost of the licences. It
> sucks. I hope Juniper will come to their senses soon.
It used to be considerably worse. As late as May 2009, Juniper charged
$10.000 (list price) for an "IPv6 Support on JunOS" on license (for high
end M/MX/T series), and the same amount for an E series IPv6 license.
Fortunately Juniper seems to have come to their senses here, and these
licenses are now $0.
Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug@nethelp.no
