[60] in SIPB IPv6
IPv6 status
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ken Raeburn)
Tue Nov 25 16:21:10 2003
To: sipbv6@mit.edu, noahm@lcs.MIT.EDU, gdt@sunpal4.MIT.EDU
From: Ken Raeburn <raeburn@MIT.EDU>
Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2003 16:21:08 -0500
FYI:
There was some discussion a while back about upgrading our 6bone (test
IPv6 network) status to a pTLA. We've met all the necessary criteria
(I think) for quite a while now, but "real" IPv6 address assignments
are being given out now, and the 6bone is being phased out over the
next few years, so I don't see any point in going down that path.
At an IETF conference recently, Bill and I were talking to Perry
Metzger. He's made plans to come up in January and work with Jeff on
getting IPv6 carried on the campus network in a more "real" fashion
than we've got it now (maybe a half dozen or so on-campus subnets, as
interested parties volunteer their workstations?), and actually run by
the network group. We'll get a new IPv6 address allocation, probably
a fairly large one, since that seems to be the only way currently to
get routes advertised by multiple neighbors, though we may actually
only use a relatively small piece of it, at least initially.
How quickly and to what extent this will happen will depend on a
number of factors, including Jeff's ability to get hardware upgrades
for the campus routers, or get hold of other hardware and space to
deploy it for tunnels, or whatever it takes. At the moment, there
isn't much information to be had on that front; we'll see what
develops.
We'll continue to have the SIPB 6bone connection for a while, and will
be able to pass packets back and forth between it and the new
allocation efficiently. Once the new network is up, we should be able
to provide tunnel service there as well; for now, we can continue to
add tunnels through limekiller as desired.
Ken
