[139926] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: "supporting IPv6" <--- what it means exactly?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jared Mauch)
Sat Apr 23 10:14:36 2011
From: Jared Mauch <jared@puck.nether.net>
In-Reply-To: <77FA13A2-5291-46D8-B6F0-6B7821E1710F@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 23 Apr 2011 10:14:27 -0400
To: Rogelio <scubacuda@gmail.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Apr 23, 2011, at 7:45 AM, Rogelio wrote:
> Is there any clear understanding of what "supporting IPv6" means?
>=20
> I recently was told by a vendor that they "supported IPv6", and then =
when I went to go configure an IPv6 address, it was, of course, IPv4. I =
asked how they supported that, and they said that they "supported it" =
because they could "pass IPv6" traffic.
Look for things like:
* IPv6 NDP support (RA, ND, NS, etc)
* IPv6 native transport to the control-plane + in-band management
* Support for IPv6 on bundled interfaces (with RA, ND, NS working)
These are the types of things you need to look for. Some of these items =
depend on what your use case is. Some places you may want to talk about =
RA-Guard, others may not matter as much. Same for DHCPv6. I don't need =
this in my core network, but at the edge it's possibly important =
depending on the device(s).
- Jared
