Hi Richard, GD in the Cisco world is different than some, it is done when selected by our Customer Sat surveys, in conjunction with Customers identifying that we have met the new feature requirements for a given code family, not just when we think we have the bug list short enough. The key versions to look for IPv6 support would be 12.2S or 12.3, depending on your needs. I would stay away from 12.2T for any production environments, excellent for first in trials of new technology though. Obviously the "S" family is more Service Provider oriented than other releases, but there may be other features you want from the 12.3 releases. Hardware based v6 is available in the Cisco 12000's today, with two of our latest switches also shipping with IPv6 ASICs as well. Experience with (most of) 12.0S have proven very good over the years, even though it has never gone GD. I am hoping to see the same with 12.2S For full documentation on the IPv6 support see the following URL: http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/product/software/ios122/122newft /122t/122t13/ipv6/ftipv6r.htm PERSONALLY in my years at Telecom and University of Waikato, I felt that large-scale rollouts of new technology should be driven by business needs, not by geekdom. I did however run 12.1 (was it TY or something like that) back early in 2000 on a 7200 and a 2501 with a short term IPv6 in IPv4 tunnel to a test router in Sprint, to see how it all worked, and lo, it did, just nobody cared ;-) Arron -----Original Message----- From: richard(a)kcbbs.gen.nz [mailto:richard(a)kcbbs.gen.nz] Sent: Tuesday, 27 May 2003 12:05 p.m. To: nznog(a)list.waikato.ac.nz Subject: Re: [nznog] IPv6 at APE On Tue, May 27, 2003 at 09:31:00AM +1200, Arron Scott wrote:
Although obviously it is important the operations groups get to grips with v6 (and it's MANY implications), I still wonder what the business
drivers will be for people to use IPv6 extensively in NZ. Until a critical mass is reached it will be up to those who build IPv6 clouds to provide the v6-v4 gateways, and I still see the real work going on in China, and the mobile provider networks.
Yes, I have noticed that virtually every non-Cisco system on my network has a degree of IPv6 support. Can you remind us of the first GA-release version of IOS which supports IPv6? Maybe there are point releases in several streams. That will give a point to aim for when planning updates. Regards, RH. _______________________________________________ Nznog mailing list Nznog(a)list.waikato.ac.nz http://list.waikato.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/nznog