[87720] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Awful quiet?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mans Nilsson)
Thu Jan 5 17:58:12 2006
Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2006 23:57:43 +0100
From: Mans Nilsson <mansaxel@sunet.se>
To: Jim Popovitch <jimpop@yahoo.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <20051221080923.85257.qmail@web30408.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
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Subject: Awful quiet? Date: Wed, Dec 21, 2005 at 12:09:23AM -0800 Quoting J=
im Popovitch (jimpop@yahoo.com):
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> I miss the endless debates. Is *everyone* Christmas shopping?
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> Here's a thought to ponder....
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> With the thousands of datacenters that exist with IPv4 cores, what will i=
t take to get them to move all of their infrastructure and customers to IPv=
6? Can it even be done or will they just run IPv6 to the core and proxy th=
e rest?
A datacenter typically has L2 VLANs everywhere, connected to one
or more routing devices for v4 connectivity, so all one needs to
do is get one or two routers with all VLANs trunked in on ethernets
and give each L2 broadcast domain a /64. Run RA to taste.=20
I've done this on what amounts to a "very large data center", a LAN=20
gamer party with over 5000 participants. Of course, not many were using
v6 (We really need a FPS game with v6 transport to drive this forward!),=20
but it was available to everyone, and, it did not harm v4 traffic.=20
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M=E5ns Nilsson Systems Specialist
+46 70 681 7204 KTHNOC
MN1334-RIPE
INSIDE, I have the same personality disorder as LUCY RICARDO!!
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