Re: anyone else seeing very long AS paths?

2009-02-17 Thread Jens Ott - PlusServer AG
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I just received reply from Sloan-Park, that they have shutdown that customer yesterday 6:40pm CET and the customer has been requested to clean-up his config. BR Jens Jason Kalai Arasu schrieb: > I encountered it yesterday from AS47868. > >

Re: anyone else seeing very long AS paths?

2009-02-17 Thread Florian Weimer
* Hank Nussbacher: > "They" will keep trying and until a vast majority of ISPs implement > maxas, this will keep happening. Or enthusiastic prepending will be used more often to override local preference. Hard to tell. -- Florian Weimer BFK edv-consulting GmbH http://www.

Re: anyone else seeing very long AS paths?

2009-02-17 Thread Jared Mauch
On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 08:07:36AM +0200, Hank Nussbacher wrote: > A regular UN of attempts to do this previously: > > 24532 - PT. Inet Global Indo, Indonesia > 43179 - Team Consulting AS, Bosnia and Herzegovina > 48262 - Noblecom Ltd., Bulgaria > 6488 - Arizona Macintosh Users Group, USA > 3962

IP DSLAMs

2009-02-17 Thread Church, Charles
All, Looking for a recommendation on DSLAMs to replace our unsupported Cisco 6015s. Requirements are: G.SHDSL 2 and 4 wire mode (CPEs are strictly Cisco 828, 878, and small cisco routers using WIC-1SHDSL and the V2/V3 of them) QOS would be nice, not a necessity SNMPv3 and SSHv2 support IPv

Re: anyone else seeing very long AS paths?

2009-02-17 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
Jared Mauch wrote: On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 08:07:36AM +0200, Hank Nussbacher wrote: "They" will keep trying and until a vast majority of ISPs implement maxas, this will keep happening. Or until people who are still running multi-year old cisco code actually upgrade? This seems to

Re: anyone else seeing very long AS paths?

2009-02-17 Thread Adrian Chadd
On Tue, Feb 17, 2009, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: > On the other hand, the fact that various entities have gone out of their > way to advertise that they're running old hardware/out-of-date software > has been noted elsewhere. I'd strongly suggest, if you're reading NANOG, > that you update, before s

Re: anyone else seeing very long AS paths?

2009-02-17 Thread Michael Ulitskiy
My bgp speaking devices are a couple of 7200s running 12.2(40). Not the newest IOS out there, but it's been doing the job just fine up until yesterday. Yesterday, when that malformed announcement hit my routers they didn't crash, but they did reset bgp sessions (even though I didn't accept the r

Re: anyone else seeing very long AS paths?

2009-02-17 Thread Hank Nussbacher
On Tue, 17 Feb 2009, Jared Mauch wrote: Or until people who are still running multi-year old cisco code actually upgrade? This seems to primarily impact: 1) Old cisco code 2) PC based bgp daemons Both of which likely just need to be upgraded. I actually suspec

IPv6 Confusion

2009-02-17 Thread Carl Rosevear
So, I understand the main concepts behind IPv6. Most of my peers understand. We all have a detailed understanding of most things IPv4. I have Googled and read RFCs about IPv6 for HOURS. That said, to quickly try to minimize people thinking I am an idiot who asks before he reads, I need some

Re: IPv6 Confusion

2009-02-17 Thread Mohacsi Janos
On Tue, 17 Feb 2009, Carl Rosevear wrote: So, I understand the main concepts behind IPv6. Most of my peers understand. We all have a detailed understanding of most things IPv4. I have Googled and read RFCs about IPv6 for HOURS. That said, to quickly try to minimize people thinking I am

RE: IPv6 Confusion

2009-02-17 Thread TJ
>How does IPv6 addressing work? Short version: 2000::/3The currently active global unicast pool RIRx::/12 IANA (by default) assigns /12s to RIRs RIRx:ISPx::/32 RIRs (by default) assign /32s to ISPs RIRx:ISPx:ORGx::/48 ISPs (by defa

Re: IPv6 Confusion

2009-02-17 Thread Fred Baker
You already have a fair bit of information, but the short answer to your question is... Apart from a few special purposes addresses (see RFC 4291), IPv6 addresses are a cross between IPv4-style CIDR addressing and XNS/IPX/ ISO-style network+host addressing. Bits 0..63 of the address are a

Re: IPv6 Confusion

2009-02-17 Thread Scott Howard
I can't help directly with your biggest question, but there's a smaller point here that seems to come up a lot and I think is important to address... On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 8:59 AM, Carl Rosevear < carl.rosev...@demandmedia.com> wrote: > I can't see why hosts would need any more addresses than t

Re: IPv6 Confusion

2009-02-17 Thread Jack Bates
Mohacsi Janos wrote: If you are interested about the addressing architecture only, have a look at RFC 4291: http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4291 If you want to have some allocation guidelines from experiences, have a look at these slides: http://www.6deploy.org/tutorials/030-6deploy_ipv6_addres

Re: IPv6 Confusion

2009-02-17 Thread Owen DeLong
On Feb 17, 2009, at 8:59 AM, Carl Rosevear wrote: So, I understand the main concepts behind IPv6. Most of my peers understand. We all have a detailed understanding of most things IPv4. I have Googled and read RFCs about IPv6 for HOURS. That said, to quickly try to minimize people think

Re: anyone else seeing very long AS paths?

2009-02-17 Thread German Martinez
On Tue Feb 17, 2009, Michael Ulitskiy wrote: Hello, CSCee30718 – it removes the default value of bgp max-as from the router. The solution is introduced in CSCeh13489 BGP shouldn't propogate an update w excessive AS Path > 255 Symptoms: A router may reset its Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) sessio

RE: IPv6 Confusion

2009-02-17 Thread Carl Rosevear
Thanks to all that responded on and off-list. My confusion is mostly cleared-up. The points that are unclear at this point are generally unclear to most people, it seems due to lack of operational experience with IPv6. Feel free to keep responding to this topic as its all very interesting but

Re: anyone else seeing very long AS paths?

2009-02-17 Thread Mike Lewinski
German Martinez wrote: Workaround: Configure the bgp maxas limit command in such as way that the maximum length of the AS path is a value below 255. When the router receives an update with an excessive AS path value, the prefix is rejected and recorded the event in the log. This workaround has

Re: anyone else seeing very long AS paths?

2009-02-17 Thread German Martinez
On Tue Feb 17, 2009, Mike Lewinski wrote: > bgp max-as will NOT protect you from this exploit (but if you are not > vulnerable it should prevent you from propogating it). Are you trying to say that the receiving bgp speaker will drop the session no matter what but it won't forward the update? H

Re: anyone else seeing very long AS paths?

2009-02-17 Thread Jack Bates
German Martinez wrote: On Tue Feb 17, 2009, Mike Lewinski wrote: bgp max-as will NOT protect you from this exploit (but if you are not vulnerable it should prevent you from propogating it). Are you trying to say that the receiving bgp speaker will drop the session no matter what but it won't

RE: anyone else seeing very long AS paths?

2009-02-17 Thread Ivan Pepelnjak
According to publicly available bug toolkit, CSCee30718 did not touch the maxas limit. The hard-coded maxas-limit in recent IOS releases is 254 (not 75 as suggested in a previous e-mail). Classic IOS (I did not test XE, XR or NX) can handle inbound updates with AS path lengths above 255, but fail

RE: IPv6 Confusion

2009-02-17 Thread Tony Hain
While people frequently claim that auto-config is optional, there are implementations (including OS-X) that don't support anything else at this point. The basic message is that you should not assume that the host implementations will conform to what the network operator would prefer, and you need t

Re: anyone else seeing very long AS paths?

2009-02-17 Thread Jack Bates
Ivan Pepelnjak wrote: Classic IOS (I did not test XE, XR or NX) can handle inbound updates with AS path lengths above 255, but fails miserably when it has to send an oversized update (producing invalid BGP UPDATE message), resulting in a flapping BGP session (anyone who wants to test this behavio

Re: anyone else seeing very long AS paths?

2009-02-17 Thread Mike Lewinski
Jack Bates wrote: Just to reconfirm. The issue arrives with sending an update, not receiving? So if an ISP does not have a limit and their IOS cannot handle this, they will send an invalid BGP UPDATE to the downstream peers causing them to reset regardless of their max as-path settings? Just

RE: anyone else seeing very long AS paths?

2009-02-17 Thread Ivan Pepelnjak
As far as I understand the issues :) There are two limits: the first one @ 128 AS numbers (where BGP switches to the 'extended length' of BGP attribute), the other one @ 256 AS numbers (where BGP has to use two AS_SEQUENCE segments). Old IOS releases break on the first boundary when processing IN

Re: IPv6 Confusion

2009-02-17 Thread Owen DeLong
On Feb 17, 2009, at 11:28 AM, Tony Hain wrote: While people frequently claim that auto-config is optional, there are implementations (including OS-X) that don't support anything else at this point. The basic message is that you should not assume that the host implementations will conform to

RE: anyone else seeing very long AS paths?

2009-02-17 Thread Ivan Pepelnjak
> We were dropping ALL prefixes and the eBGP session was still > resetting. Upstream or downstream? > 1) "bgp maxas-limit 75" had no effect mitigating this problem > on the IOS we were using. That is: it was previously verified > to be working just fine to drop paths longer than 75, but > on

Re: anyone else seeing very long AS paths?

2009-02-17 Thread Steven Saner
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Feb 17, 2009, at 1:50 PM, Ivan Pepelnjak wrote: As far as I understand the issues :) There are two limits: the first one @ 128 AS numbers (where BGP switches to the 'extended length' of BGP attribute), the other one @ 256 AS numbers (where

Re: anyone else seeing very long AS paths?

2009-02-17 Thread German Martinez
On Tue Feb 17, 2009, Ivan Pepelnjak wrote: > According to publicly available bug toolkit, CSCee30718 did not touch the > maxas limit. I will double check this with Cisco pgpeuQs06hcKd.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: anyone else seeing very long AS paths?

2009-02-17 Thread Rodney Dunn
Ivan, It is confusing but from what I have tested you have it correct. The confusing part comes from multiple issues. a) The documentation about the default maxas limit being 75 appears to be incorrect. I'll get that fixed. b) Prior to CSCee30718 there was a hard limit of 255. After that fix

Re: IPv6 Confusion

2009-02-17 Thread David Conrad
On Feb 17, 2009, at 11:28 AM, Tony Hain wrote: Approach IPv6 as a new and different protocol. Unfortunately, I gather this isn't what end users or network operators want or expect. I suspect if we want to make real inroads towards IPv6 deployment, we'll need to spend a bit more time making

Re: IPv6 Confusion

2009-02-17 Thread Paul Ferguson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 12:20 PM, David Conrad wrote: > On Feb 17, 2009, at 11:28 AM, Tony Hain wrote: >> >> Approach IPv6 as a new and different protocol. > > Unfortunately, I gather this isn't what end users or network operators > want or expect.

Re: IPv6 Confusion

2009-02-17 Thread Mark Smith
Hi, On Tue, 17 Feb 2009 11:48:49 -0800 Owen DeLong wrote: > > On Feb 17, 2009, at 11:28 AM, Tony Hain wrote: > > > While people frequently claim that auto-config is optional, there are > > implementations (including OS-X) that don't support anything else at > > this > > point. The basic mess

Re: IPv6 Confusion

2009-02-17 Thread Nathan Ward
On 18/02/2009, at 9:32 AM, Mark Smith wrote: Here are a couple of implementations of DHCPv6, including one that also works under Windows. I played with one of them on my Linux boxes a while back (I can't remember exactly which one), and it just worked: https://fedorahosted.org/dhcpv6/ http:/

RE: IPv6 Confusion

2009-02-17 Thread TJ
>do this, but others here do). For example, getting over the stateless >autoconfig religion (which was never fully thought out -- how does a >autoconfig'd device get a DNS name associated with their address in a DNSSEC- >signed world again?) and letting network operators use DHCP with IPv6 the way

Re: IPv6 Confusion

2009-02-17 Thread Mark Smith
On Tue, 17 Feb 2009 12:24:26 -0800 Paul Ferguson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 12:20 PM, David Conrad wrote: > > > On Feb 17, 2009, at 11:28 AM, Tony Hain wrote: > >> > >> Approach IPv6 as a new and different protocol. > > > > Unfortunatel

Re: anyone else seeing very long AS paths?

2009-02-17 Thread Jack Bates
Steven Saner wrote: What is not yet clear is, what are the definitions of "Old IOS release" and "New IOS release"? There has been talk of a bug referred to as CSCdr54230. I have seen statements on another list that this was fixed in 12.1(4) and 12.0(10)S3, but yet this problem was experienced o

Re: IPv6 Confusion

2009-02-17 Thread Kevin Oberman
> From: Owen DeLong > Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2009 11:48:49 -0800 > > > On Feb 17, 2009, at 11:28 AM, Tony Hain wrote: > > > While people frequently claim that auto-config is optional, there are > > implementations (including OS-X) that don't support anything else at > > this > > point. The basic m

Re: IPv6 Confusion

2009-02-17 Thread Nathan Ward
On 18/02/2009, at 8:28 AM, Tony Hain wrote: One last comment (because I hear "just more bits" a lot in the *nog community)... Approach IPv6 as a new and different protocol. If you approach it as "IPv4 with more bits", you will trip over the differences and be pissed off. If you approach it as

Re: IPv6 Confusion

2009-02-17 Thread Joe Provo
On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 11:28:11AM -0800, Tony Hain wrote: [snip] > starts with IP" and runs alongside IPv4 (like we used to do with decnet, > sna, appletalk...), you will be comforted in all the similarities. You will This is highly amusing, as for myself and many folks the experience of these '

Re: anyone else seeing very long AS paths?

2009-02-17 Thread Leland E. Vandervort
On Tue, 17 Feb 2009, Mike Lewinski wrote: > German Martinez wrote: > bgp max-as will NOT protect you from this exploit (but if you are not > vulnerable it should prevent you from propogating it). > I can confirm this statement... (unfortunately) L.

RE: IPv6 Confusion

2009-02-17 Thread Tony Hain
Owen DeLong wrote: > On Feb 17, 2009, at 11:28 AM, Tony Hain wrote: > > > While people frequently claim that auto-config is optional, there are > > implementations (including OS-X) that don't support anything else at > > this > > point. The basic message is that you should not assume that the host

RE: IPv6 Confusion

2009-02-17 Thread Tony Hain
David Conrad wrote: > On Feb 17, 2009, at 11:28 AM, Tony Hain wrote: > > Approach IPv6 as a new and different protocol. > > Unfortunately, I gather this isn't what end users or network operators > want or expect. I suspect if we want to make real inroads towards > IPv6 deployment, we'll need to s

Re: anyone else seeing very long AS paths?

2009-02-17 Thread German Martinez
On Tue Feb 17, 2009, Rodney Dunn wrote: Hello Rodney, It will be great if you can share with us your findings. It seems like we are hitting different bugs in different platforms. Thanks German > Ivan, > > It is confusing but from what I have tested you have it correct. > > The confusing part

Re: anyone else seeing very long AS paths?

2009-02-17 Thread Rodney Dunn
If you want to take this offline send it unicast or we could move it to cisco-nsp. What scenarios are you seeing that appear broken other than when a notification is sent when a > 255 hop update is received? That's the one I'm working on right now. Rodney On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 05:31:49PM -0500

RE: IPv6 Confusion

2009-02-17 Thread Tony Hain
Joe Provo wrote: > This is highly amusing, as for myself and many folks the experience > of these 'other protocols', when trying to run in open, scalable, > and commercially-viable deployments, was to encapsulate in IP(v4) > at the LAN/WAN boundary. It is no wonder that is the natural reaction > t

Re: IPv6 Confusion

2009-02-17 Thread Mark Andrews
In message , David Conrad writes: > On Feb 17, 2009, at 11:28 AM, Tony Hain wrote: > > Approach IPv6 as a new and different protocol. > > Unfortunately, I gather this isn't what end users or network operators > want or expect. I suspect if we want to make real inroads towards > IPv6 deploym

Re: IPv6 Confusion

2009-02-17 Thread Randy Bush
At Tue, 17 Feb 2009 11:28:11 -0800, Tony Hain wrote: > > While people frequently claim that auto-config is optional, there are > implementations (including OS-X) that don't support anything else at this > point. The basic message is that you should not assume that the host > implementations will c

Re: IPv6 Confusion

2009-02-17 Thread Randy Bush
> Also, a proposal for a different approach is at: > http://mice.cs.columbia.edu/getTechreport.php?techreportID=560 (PDF) which has an internet draft, draft-ymbk-aplusp-02.txt randy

Re: IPv6 Confusion

2009-02-17 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Wed, 18 Feb 2009 10:55:30 +1100, Mark Andrews said: > I solve it by give the machine a name. Adding a KEY record > at that name to the DNS, the private part the machine knows. I think the issue is that the machine in question may not know its own hostname to start, much less that d

Re: IPv6 Confusion

2009-02-17 Thread David Conrad
On Feb 17, 2009, at 1:55 PM, Mark Andrews wrote: (which was never fully thought out -- how does a autoconfig'd device get a DNS name associated with their address in a DNSSEC-signed world again?) and letting network operators use DHCP with IPv6 the way they do with IPv4. David you kno

Re: IPv6 Confusion

2009-02-17 Thread Mark Andrews
In message <14076.1234917...@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>, valdis.kletni...@vt.edu writes: > --==_Exmh_1234917735_3892P > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > > On Wed, 18 Feb 2009 10:55:30 +1100, Mark Andrews said: > > I solve it by give the machine a name. Adding a KEY record > >

Re: IPv6 Confusion

2009-02-17 Thread Mark Andrews
In message <33415e7e-23f2-45f2-9281-ab1685dee...@virtualized.org>, David Conrad writes: > > On Feb 17, 2009, at 1:55 PM, Mark Andrews wrote: > >> (which was never fully > >> thought out -- how does a autoconfig'd device get a DNS name > >> associated with their address in a DNSSEC-signed world a

RE: IPv6 Confusion

2009-02-17 Thread Steven Lisson
Hi, I find it a shame that NAT-PT has become depreciated, with people talking about carrier grade NATS I think combining these with NAT-PT could help with the transition after we run out of IPv4 space. ISP gets a chunk of IPv6 address space, sets up customers with it, gets their big lovely carrie

Re: IPv6 Confusion

2009-02-17 Thread Leen Besselink
Mark Andrews wrote: >> >> (or just pre-populate the DNS with DHCP-2001-9A98-D247-{5more}.ISP.com >> >> and be >> >> done with it like many places do for IPv4) > > > > Which still leaves the problem of how does the machine get its > > name in a trusted manner. > > I don't know about that,

Re: IPv6 Confusion

2009-02-17 Thread Randy Bush
> I find it a shame that NAT-PT has become depreciated the ietf has recanted and is hurriedly trying to get this back on track. of course, to save face, the name has to be changed. > with people talking about carrier grade NATS I think combining > these with NAT-PT could help with the transition

Re: IPv6 Confusion

2009-02-17 Thread Brandon Galbraith
On 2/17/09, Randy Bush wrote: > > > I find it a shame that NAT-PT has become depreciated > > the ietf has recanted and is hurriedly trying to get this back on > track. of course, to save face, the name has to be changed. > > > with people talking about carrier grade NATS I think combining > > the

Re: IPv6 Confusion

2009-02-17 Thread Randy Bush
> cgn is not a transition tool. it is a dangerous hack to deal with > the problems of a few very large consumer isps who lack sufficient > space to number their customer edge. > Sounds like those consumer ISPs better get started on rolling out > dual stacks to the CPE. except that, if

Re: IPv6 Confusion

2009-02-17 Thread Nathan Ward
On 18/02/2009, at 3:23 PM, Randy Bush wrote: I find it a shame that NAT-PT has become depreciated the ietf has recanted and is hurriedly trying to get this back on track. of course, to save face, the name has to be changed. Sort of - except it is only for IPv6 "clients" to connect to named

Re: IPv6 Confusion

2009-02-17 Thread Brandon Galbraith
So we deploy v6 addresses to clients, and save the remaining v4 addresses for servers. Problem solved? -brandon On 2/17/09, Nathan Ward wrote: > On 18/02/2009, at 3:23 PM, Randy Bush wrote: > >>> I find it a shame that NAT-PT has become depreciated >> >> the ietf has recanted and is hurriedly tr

Re: IPv6 Confusion

2009-02-17 Thread Nathan Ward
On 18/02/2009, at 3:04 PM, Steven Lisson wrote: ISP gets a chunk of IPv6 address space, sets up customers with it, gets their big lovely carrier grade NAT device that NAT's from customers IPv6 address to whatever IPv4 service they need. I'm probably missing something but does this not seem

Re: IPv6 Confusion

2009-02-17 Thread David Conrad
Tony, On Feb 17, 2009, at 12:17 PM, Tony Hain wrote: This being a list of network engineers, there is a strong bias toward tools that allow explicit management of the network. This is a fine position, and those tools need to exist. There are others that don't want, or need to know about eve

RE: IPv6 Confusion

2009-02-17 Thread Steven Lisson
Basically that is what I was thinking, not sure could say problem solved as would still be using big nat boxes, but if we are going to 'have' to have nat, why not in a form that encourages adoption of IPv6? Having have said that, from someone else's comment would have to agree with them about u

RE: IPv6 Confusion

2009-02-17 Thread Skywing
Except for the fact that it's actually not so uncommon for "clients" to act as servers some of the time. Things have long ago left the days of clients were only clients and have since moved on to a muddier state of affairs. - S -Original Message- From: Brandon Galbraith [mailto:brando

Re: IPv6 Confusion

2009-02-17 Thread Nathan Ward
On 18/02/2009, at 4:13 PM, Brandon Galbraith wrote: So we deploy v6 addresses to clients, and save the remaining v4 addresses for servers. Problem solved? I have been suggesting that for a long time. However I am not suggesting IPv6-only to clients. See my other email on this from a minute

Re: IPv6 Confusion

2009-02-17 Thread David Conrad
On Feb 17, 2009, at 3:55 PM, Mark Andrews wrote: In otherwords ISP's need to enter the 21st century. Yeah, those stupid, lazy, ISPs. I'm sure they're just sitting around every day, kicking back, eating Bon Bons(tm), and thinking of all the new and interesting ways they can burn the vast tr

Re: IPv6 Confusion

2009-02-17 Thread Zaid Ali
>You are arguing that ISPs should make changes >without any obvious mechanism to guarantee some return on the >investment necessary to pay for those changes. Nail on the head and the 800 pound gorilla in the room. Japan gave tax incentives which helped their ISP's to move to IPv6. Find a laz

Re: IPv6 Confusion

2009-02-17 Thread Randy Bush
> Japan gave tax incentives which helped their ISP's to move to IPv6. i am writing this from my home office in tokyo. i have the latest fanciest wizbang ftth bflets 100/100 from ntt. native ipv6 is not offered on it. if i connect a v6 device to it, it gives me a v6 AC and RA. but that is for t

Re: IPv6 Confusion

2009-02-17 Thread Justin Shore
Steven Lisson wrote: Hi, I find it a shame that NAT-PT has become depreciated, with people talking about carrier grade NATS I think combining these with NAT-PT could help with the transition after we run out of IPv4 space. For me the bigger problem is how do I enable IPv6 on my assorted CE-fa

Re: IPv6 Confusion

2009-02-17 Thread Mark Andrews
In message <6f7ba817-320b-414f-9811-03b476990...@virtualized.org>, David Conrad writes: > On Feb 17, 2009, at 3:55 PM, Mark Andrews wrote: > > In otherwords ISP's need to enter the 21st century. > > Yeah, those stupid, lazy, ISPs. I'm sure they're just sitting around > every day, kicking back

Re: IPv6 Confusion

2009-02-17 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Tue, 17 Feb 2009 23:08:21 CST, Justin Shore said: > For me the bigger problem is how do I enable IPv6 on my assorted > CE-facing edges when management is still buying edge hardware that can > not and will not ever support IPv6. Find out if Randy Bush's companies are still buying non-IPv6-cap

Re: IPv6 Confusion

2009-02-17 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
On Tue, 17 Feb 2009, Justin Shore wrote: different vendors, I asked each of them about their IPv6 support and they all unanimously claimed that there was no demand for it from their customers. Well, this is just ignorance or a kind of a lie. There might be few customers who are willing to tr

Re: IPv6 Confusion

2009-02-17 Thread David Conrad
On Feb 17, 2009, at 7:40 PM, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote: Most of the time the vendors don't educate their sales force (both the droids and the sales engineers) about IPv6 because they themselves have made the strategic decision that IPv6 isn't important to them (personal view). Suggestion: n

Re: IPv6 Confusion

2009-02-17 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
On Tue, 17 Feb 2009, David Conrad wrote: Suggestion: next time you buy equipment from competing vendors, tell the sales folk from the losing vendors that one deciding factor was (vendor or product) IPv6 support. That (and perhaps only that) will get their attention... :-) Well, considering h

Re: IPv6 Confusion

2009-02-17 Thread Adrian Chadd
On Wed, Feb 18, 2009, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote: > >>If any CPE NAT box vendor comes around and has 6to4 with proper IPv6, ^ > >>I'll happily recommend all our customers who want IPv6 to buy that > >>perticular box. > > > >Apple Airport Extreme? (Seems to work, but I don't know how standa

Re: IPv6 Confusion

2009-02-17 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
On Wed, 18 Feb 2009, Adrian Chadd wrote: Oh, so you want the $50 almost-but-not-quite-functional CPE device which causes headaches for you and your techies, complete with almost-but-not-quite "upgrade" firmware updates which somewhat-wierdly subtly break existing functionality for a small-but