[47892] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Interconnects
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sean Donelan)
Fri May 17 17:03:34 2002
Date: Fri, 17 May 2002 17:02:53 -0400 (EDT)
From: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>
To: bmanning@karoshi.com
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
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On Fri, 17 May 2002 bmanning@karoshi.com wrote:
> perhaps better late than never... PAIX & LINX both
> have IPv6 capabilities at/on the exchange fabric(s).
> I am not aware that Equinix has taken that step.
Uhm, another dumb question.
Why does the operator of a layer 2 exchange care (or know) what
protocols your are using? IPv4, IPv6, heck I remember seeing
Appletalk, OSI and DECNET on MAE-EAST. What consenting network
operators do....
What step does Equinix (or any other layer 2 exchange) need to do?
The ATM NAPs might have an issue due to ATM/ARP, but even then I suspect
two consenting network operators could use static IPv6 ARP tables
without the NAP operator doing anything.
