On 18-Feb-2007, at 01:08, Alastair Johnson wrote:
Philip D'Ath wrote:
I think you'll find people will start publishing their content so that it is available via IPv4 and IPv6. Then customers using both protocols will be able to access it. I highly doubt anyway will make their content available using just one transport version.
I think you completely missed the point I was trying to make: If v6 is suboptimal (the previously mentioned 6to4 anycast traffic hitting Europe, excessive RTTs, packet loss, etc), then why would anyone WANT to publish their content on v6 so that Vista-v6 customers, which will try v6 first, will get a substandard experience? Customers will complain, and go elsewhere.
Incidentally, running up a 6to4 relay on a dual stack cisco is trivial; it's about 15 lines of config. If we assume for a reason that there's at least one dual-stack network in New Zealand that has at least one dual-stack cisco in its network, then surely this is a trivial problem to solve.
(nb. I do encourage the wider deployment of 6to4 gates, but we have to be realistic here. This is a problem, and I'm sure that one of the first helpdesk troubleshooting steps is going to be, "disable v6")
If I could avoid one helpdesk call by pasting in a 6to4 relay config into a single cisco, I'd do it. Joe