[182129] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Hotels/Airports with IPv6
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark Andrews)
Fri Jul 10 17:42:05 2015
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
To: Christopher Morrow <morrowc.lists@gmail.com>
From: Mark Andrews <marka@isc.org>
In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 10 Jul 2015 11:54:00 -0400."
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Date: Sat, 11 Jul 2015 07:41:53 +1000
Cc: North American Network Operators' Group <nanog@nanog.org>
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In message <CAL9jLabA5nO6YQ99CRhDgRTHTSB0VgP3GDNeu-VU2-4R_1_pLQ@mail.gmail.com>
, Christopher Morrow writes:
> On Thu, Jul 9, 2015 at 11:04 AM, Mel Beckman <mel@beckman.org> wrote:
> > I working on a large airport WiFi deployment right now. IPv6 is "allowed =
> for in the future" but not configured in the short term. With less than 10,=
> 000 ephemeral users, we don't expect users to demand IPv6 until most mobile=
> devices and apps come ready to use IPv6 by default.
> >
>
> 'we don't expect users to demand ipv6'
>
> aside from #nanog folks, who 'demands' ipv6?
>
> Don't they actually 'demand' "access to content on the internet" ?
>
> Since you seem to have a greenfield deployment, why NOT just put v6 in
> place on day0? retrofitting it is surely going to cost time/materials
> and probably upgrades to gear that could be avoided by doing it in the
> initial installation, right?
+1 and you will most probably see about 50% of the traffic being IPv6 if
you do so. There is lots of IPv6 capable equipment out there just waiting
to see a RA.
Mark
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