On 25 Feb 2005, at 23:08, Matt Brown wrote:
I guess we can't always rely on the journalists to keep us informed.
The Citylink tunnel brokers give access to a WIX+APE peering set of v6 routes. They don't provide a full set of global routes, unless I am dramatically misunderstanding their mission. The general problem with anybody providing a tunnel broker in New Zealand which provides global transit is that the operator of the tunnel broker is saddled with shipping the frames in and out of the country, which has a non-zero cost. Setting up a tunnel to a Citylink tunnel broker to allow local traffic to avoid trips over oceans and augmenting that with a foreign tunnel for the global table is probably the way to approach this, if you want the best facsimile of local v6 service. You will probably want your tunnel termination points in your network to be routers which speak BGP, and you'll probably want a globally-unique autonomous system number (the one you use for v4 will do just fine). You don't necessarily need to worry about address space; your global transit provider (tunnel broker overseas) should be able to assign address space to you (a /48 is usual for a non-trivial AS, which gives you sufficient numbers for 65536 subnets). Joe