[152294] in North American Network Operators' Group
IPv6 dark traffic collection restarted
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Geoff Huston)
Tue Apr 24 12:42:49 2012
From: Geoff Huston <gih@apnic.net>
Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2012 02:41:17 +1000
To: NANOG Mailing List <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Hi,
In 2010, and again in 2011, I ran an experiment to examine the "dark" =
traffic in IPv6. I did this by announcing the "superblock" 2400::/12 =
which has been allocated to APNIC for its IPv6 allocations. The =
superblock announcement is an aggregate and will not disrupt any IPv6 =
traffic - the packets that will head to this dark traffic collector were =
on their way to /dev/null in any case.
We are about to run this experiment up again to collect a 2012 data =
profile for IPv6 dark traffic in 2012. Accordingly, 2400::/12 will be =
announced by AS3562 - please don't filter it! IPv6 packets are scarce =
enough already! :-)
This time around we are being assisted by Sandia National Laboratories =
and ESnet, for which APNIC would like to acknowledge their assistance in =
this ongoing research activity.
Some URLs:
- ESnet news item is at: =
http://www.es.net/services/ipv6-network/esnet-supports-sandia-and-apnic-ip=
v6-background-radiation-research/
- LOA for the announcement: =
http://www.sandia.gov/apnic/authorization.pdf
- Previous re[port: http://www.potaroo.net/ispcol/2010-07/dark6.pdf
thanks,
Geoff
