[99354] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Going dual-stack, how do apps behave and what to do as an operator (Was: Apple Airport Extreme IPv6 problems?)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (michael.dillon@bt.com)
Wed Sep 19 05:58:47 2007
Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2007 10:58:37 +0100
In-Reply-To: <80D2DE9C-F218-47E6-A810-330D4AA6BAE7@muada.com>
From: <michael.dillon@bt.com>
To: <nanog@merit.edu>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
> When I wrote my book, I mostly looked at Cisco for this, and=20
> apart from Cisco to FreeBSD and Linux. The logic is that on a=20
> Cisco, you can build a good tunnel box (6to4 or manual=20
> tunnels) on a C7200 or some other box that has a decent CPU=20
> that can do the tunneling in software. Quite possibly a=20
> Juniper can do the same with hardware support (although I=20
> don't know that and it's also very possible that they can't=20
> do it in hardware or with decent speed in software) but there=20
> are no cheap(er) Juniper boxes that are suitable for=20
> deployment as a 5 - 200 Mbps tunnel box, in my opinion.
Are you saying that 6to4 relay servers should be dedicated to that task?
I.e. you should either dedicate a pair of routers per PoP or set up a
couple of BSD/Linux boxes per PoP?
--Michael Dillon
