[2092] in SIPB IPv6
Re: use of IPv6 on campus
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Darrin B.Jewell)
Fri Apr 14 16:33:29 2006
To: Ken Raeburn <raeburn@mit.edu>
Cc: "sipbv6@MIT.EDU" <sipbv6@mit.edu>
From: "Darrin B.Jewell" <dbj@MIT.EDU>
Cc: "Darrin B.Jewell" <dbj@mit.edu>
Date: 14 Apr 2006 16:33:40 -0400
In-Reply-To: <3E8D3464-3DFE-444B-B14A-911EB8B7A4EE@mit.edu>
Ken Raeburn <raeburn@MIT.EDU> writes:
> 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.
As an anecdotal point of reference, a while back I was in the sipb
office using my os-x laptop configured on one of the static ipv4
addresses, probably general-dink.mit.edu. I was having trouble
connecting to some of the netbsd.org machines and eventually traced it
to the fact that my machine had autoconfigured ipv6, and was trying to
use ipv6 to get to hosts that had aaaa records in dns. Unfortunately,
it appeared that the ipv6 network wasn't actually routed anywhere. I
didn't debug it very far, and ended up disabling ipv6 on my laptop so
I could continue with my original task.
Darrin
