Re: [Story] When IPv6 Fixes IPv4 Peering Issues

2022-06-13 Thread Brie
On 6/13/22 12:22 PM, Jon Lewis wrote: On Mon, 13 Jun 2022, Brie wrote: Who knows...  Hard to know if I'm taking a different network path or just going through the same routers but bypassing whatever is blocking the packets. You might be able to infer that from the hops that show up in tracer

Re: [Story] When IPv6 Fixes IPv4 Peering Issues

2022-06-13 Thread Randy Bush
so v6 is the new oob. love it. actually, have actually used it as such. saved the day. of course, using v4 trnsport to help debug v6 is far more common. > This is great to hear. I know that many things will operate better in > IPv6 land vs IPv4 land as in IPv4 land there’s a lot of port-based

Re: [Story] When IPv6 Fixes IPv4 Peering Issues

2022-06-13 Thread Jon Lewis
On Mon, 13 Jun 2022, Brie wrote: Who knows... Hard to know if I'm taking a different network path or just going through the same routers but bypassing whatever is blocking the packets. You might be able to infer that from the hops that show up in traceroutes. I went so far as to even random

Re: [Story] When IPv6 Fixes IPv4 Peering Issues

2022-06-13 Thread Brie
Who knows... Hard to know if I'm taking a different network path or just going through the same routers but bypassing whatever is blocking the packets. I should probably clarify that I'm not having slowdowns Cys -> Den. I'm having complete and total loss of packets for that one stream/type o

Re: [Story] When IPv6 Fixes IPv4 Peering Issues

2022-06-13 Thread Christopher Morrow
Curious to know if the 'saved the day' was really 'fell into a different rate-limit bucket' for UDP by address family :) On Mon, Jun 13, 2022 at 10:53 AM Jared Mauch wrote: > > > > On Jun 13, 2022, at 10:25 AM, Brielle wrote: > > > > I quickly reconfigured the Cys WireGuard node to connect to t

Re: [Story] When IPv6 Fixes IPv4 Peering Issues

2022-06-13 Thread Jared Mauch
> On Jun 13, 2022, at 10:25 AM, Brielle wrote: > > I quickly reconfigured the Cys WireGuard node to connect to the Den node over > IPv6 and, after WireGuard did its magic dynamically reconfiguring endpoints, > suddenly the connection was back up and routing at full speed. Hell yeah! > > So,

[Story] When IPv6 Fixes IPv4 Peering Issues

2022-06-13 Thread Brielle
Hi all, So fun story for you all, and a good lesson as to why spending the time to set up IPv6 can save your ass in a pinch. The players in this story are Me (and the company I consult with for when they have problems like this), Comcast (gig biz fiber), and CenturyLink (1/4th gig biz fiber).