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Re: SIXXS contact

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brielle Bruns)
Tue Apr 26 00:00:55 2011

Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2011 22:00:39 -0600
From: Brielle Bruns <bruns@2mbit.com>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <4DB62A20.7080408@trelane.net>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org

On 4/25/11 8:12 PM, Andrew Kirch wrote:
>> Speaking of which, is there an IPv6 tunnel broker that actually
>> >  charges money and where one can get real support? I would like to be
>> >  able to refer people who complain about SIXXS and others offering
>> >  support below expectation from some users.
>> >
> This is a valid point.  We want people to adopt IPv6, and to do this,
> they either have to be a huge ISP, or deal with 400ms ping times (one
> broker), or harassing/abusive volunteers (another broker).  Now, I
> understand they're volunteers, I understand it's their own time, I
> understand that we are all (myself included) complete morons wasting
> their time.  But if these two groups want people to take IPv6 seriously
> (you know, before the ceiling comes down on our heads), maybe they
> should take it seriously.
>
> Andrew
>

I do believe Hurricane Electric may offer paid ipv6 services, including 
tunnel.  Could always drop them a line and see.

Up until last month when native ipv6 came online with our upstream, we 
had a ipv6 bgp peer tunnel from them - only issues were mostly bugs in 
foundry's ipv6 code on our end.

-- 
Brielle Bruns
The Summit Open Source Development Group
http://www.sosdg.org    /     http://www.ahbl.org


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