[181797] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Dual stack IPv6 for IPv4 depletion
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jared Mauch)
Sun Jul 5 08:24:40 2015
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
From: Jared Mauch <jared@puck.nether.net>
In-Reply-To: <20150705.103227.2241541355662183955.wwaites@tardis.ed.ac.uk>
Date: Sun, 5 Jul 2015 08:24:33 -0400
To: William Waites <wwaites@tardis.ed.ac.uk>
Cc: johnl@iecc.com, jmoore@atcnetworks.net, nanog@nanog.org
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> On Jul 5, 2015, at 5:32 AM, William Waites <wwaites@tardis.ed.ac.uk> =
wrote:
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> On Sun, 5 Jul 2015 06:13:52 +0000, Mel Beckman <mel@beckman.org> said:
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>> In fact, I show just how to do this using a $99 Apple Airport
>> Express in my three-hour online course =1B$B!H=1B(BBuild your own =
IPv6 Lab=1B$B!I=1B(B
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> An anectode about this, maybe out of date, maybe not. I was helping my
> friend who likes Apple things connect to the local community
> network. He wanted to use an Airport as his home gateway rather than
> the router that we normally use. Turns out these things can *only* do
> IPv6 with tunnels and cannot do IPv6 on PPPoE. Go figure. So there is
> not exactly a clear path to native IPv6 for your lab this way.
The airport devices/airport express class are not that good of devices
as the embedded software doesn=1B$B!G=1B(Bt handle a lot of traffic or =
long uptime
well.
Most devices that are over 3 years old likely are not suitable for
IPv6 testing aside from understanding what is broken. Keep in mind
that software on a CPE device may be 6 months out of date by the time
it comes out of a container stateside.
Expecting people to use tunnels, etc doesn=1B$B!G=1B(Bt really scale =
properly.
I do wish that I could get static IPv6 prefixes along with my
static IPv4 at home, but having IPv6 at all took precedence.
- Jared=
