[126416] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: ipv6 transit over tunneled connection
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Timmins)
Fri May 14 17:24:59 2010
Date: Fri, 14 May 2010 17:23:23 -0400
From: Paul Timmins <paul@telcodata.us>
To: bruns@2mbit.com
In-Reply-To: <235599705-1273866306-cardhu_decombobulator_blackberry.rim.net-2110548843-@bda895.bisx.prod.on.blackberry>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
GBLX was great with native IPv6 setup.
VZB was nearly impossible to get them to set it up, and I'm tunneled to
a router halfway across the country. The router I was going to had
serious PMTU issues that they recently cleared up, so now it's working
satisfactorily.
-Paul
Brielle Bruns wrote:
> (Sent from my Blackberry, please avoid the flames as I can't do inline quoting)
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> Native IPv6 is a crapshoot. About the only people in the US that I've seen that are no-bullshit IPv6 native ready is Hurricane Electric. NTT is supposedly as well but I can't speak as to where they have connectivity.
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> Being that there's issues that leave us unable to get native connectivity, we have a BGP tunnel thanks to HE (with a 20ms latency from Seattle to Freemont).
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> Tunnels suck if not done correctly. We sometimes have faster and more reliable connections through IPv6, so ymmv.
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> Brielle
> ------Original Message------
> From: Jared Mauch
> To: Jack Carrozzo
> Cc: nanog@nanog.org
> Subject: Re: ipv6 transit over tunneled connection
> Sent: May 14, 2010 12:49 PM
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> I'm curious what providers have not gotten their IPv6 plans/networks/customer ports enabled.
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> I know that Comcast is doing their trials now (Thanks John!) and will be presenting at the upcoming NANOG about their experiences.
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> What parts of the big "I" Internet are not enabled or ready?
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> - Jared
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> On May 14, 2010, at 2:43 PM, Jack Carrozzo wrote:
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>> I agree - if you can get native v6 transit then more power to you. But
>> tunnels are sure better than no IPv6 connectivity in my mind. Aside from
>> slight performance/efficiency issues, I've never had an issue.
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>> -Jack Carrozzo
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