In message <c8e33f22.6369d%z...@zaidali.com>, Zaid Ali writes: > If you run Cisco ACE load balancers and start with your web server farm I > can assure you that you will be stuck because ACE loaad balancers do not > support v6 and don't plan to until mid next year and not without a new > card/cost.
So stick a router in parallel and just route IPv6 over it. So stick in a IPv6->IPv4 proxy and send that traffic through the load balancer. > If you run ACE in non routed mode then you a doubly stuck because > you can't even by bypass the loadbalancer to reach one of your webservers > since the ACE doesn't pass v6 traffic! So I agree, don't start there instead > get the corporate LAN, learn from it then move onto your production facing > networks. Also get white listed for Google NS so you can see more user > traffic. > > Zaid > > > On 10/19/10 11:30 AM, "Franck Martin" <fra...@genius.com> wrote: > > > No, no.... > > > > Putting your servers on IPv6 is a major task. Load balancers, proprietary > > code, log analysis, database records... all that needs to be reviewed to se > e > > if it is compatible with IPv6 (and a few equipments need recent upgrades if > > even they can do IPv6 today). > > > > Putting your client machines (ie internal network) to IPv6 is relatively ea > sy. > > Enable IPv6 on the border router, you don't need failover (can built it lat > er) > > as anyhow the clients will failover to IPv4 if IPv6 fails... So as failover > is > > not needed you can have a separate simple IPv6 network infrastructure on to > p > > of your IPv4 Infrastructure. > > > > So my advocacy, is get your client (I'm not talking about customers here, b > ut > > client as client/server) machines on IPv6, get your engineers, support > > staff,.. to be familiar with IPv6, then all together you can better underst > and > > how to migrate your servers infrastructure to IPv6 (and your customers to I > Pv6 > > if you are an ISP). > > > > If you do that, you will see migration to IPv6 is made much easier, and muc > h > > faster. > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Owen DeLong" <o...@delong.com> > > To: "Franck Martin" <fra...@genius.com> > > Cc: "Jonas Frey (Probe Networks)" <j...@probe-networks.de>, "Jeffrey Lyon" > > <jeffrey.l...@blacklotus.net>, "NANOG list" <nanog@nanog.org> > > Sent: Tuesday, 19 October, 2010 8:55:56 PM > > Subject: Re: Only 5x IPv4 /8 remaining at IANA > > > > Servers work just fine over tunnels if necessary too. > > > > Get your public-facing content and services on IPv6 as fast as possible. > > Make IPv6 available to your customers as quickly as possible too. > > > > Finally, your internal IT resources (other than your support department(s)) > > can > > probably wait a little while. > > > > Owen > > > > On Oct 18, 2010, at 1:41 PM, Franck Martin wrote: > > > > > > > -- Mark Andrews, ISC 1 Seymour St., Dundas Valley, NSW 2117, Australia PHONE: +61 2 9871 4742 INTERNET: ma...@isc.org
