[2070] in SIPB IPv6
use of IPv6 on campus
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ken Raeburn)
Thu Apr 13 04:07:28 2006
From: Ken Raeburn <raeburn@MIT.EDU>
Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2006 04:07:16 -0400
To: "sipbv6@MIT.EDU" <sipbv6@mit.edu>
So, how many people are using IPv6 on campus?
I know we've got tunnels to off-campus people that are active, but
what about on-campus use?
The W92 net is active (though I have no way of telling how much of
that usage comes from anyone other than me), our link to RLE has seen
a fair bit of traffic, and the W20 networks directly connected to
limekiller (used to be two of them, now one) have seen some as well.
But these stats are over the last ~year, with no indication how
recent the activity is.
Ken
P.S. I know our routing to parts of the outside world kind of sucks,
and the 6bone shutdown on 6/6/6 is looming. (We do have another
6bone allocation from VBNS, which should have better routing, if
anyone wants a piece to play with, but it'll still be useless in less
than two months.) I've been bugging Jeff now and then about whether
the network group is going to do anything with IPv6 on the Cisco
routers; no answer yet. MIT has a chunk of IPv6 address space
assigned to it by Northern Crossroads, but "borrowing" our officially-
allocated block for the machines we've got set up now, if the network
group isn't going to use it, would still have to be arranged through
the network group.
