Re: [nznog] IPv6

On Wed, 16 Jul 2003 17:23:58 +1200, Barry Murphy wrote:

Hey Antonia,

Just on that note, I will be adding ipv6 to the site sometime soon, when i'm not busy. I have the IP addresses, but was wondering if anyone would be interested in peering.

Barry

<rant> Insert generic chicken egg story here. (1) If we all start tunnelling, there may be a bit more of the learning taking place that would be needed for said ISPs to roll out v6. Perhaps WLUG's metanet(2) could be utilised here? Thier v6 support is progressing it seems. However, the metanet requires a proprietary piece of software that AFAIK is better optimised for a emulating a single ethernet broadcast domain. (ie peer to peer, stuff like that) ie. it doesn't talk to your Cisco's, or your Junipers(3). However. with a number of geeks running on metanet, perhaps machines could be put at APE and WIX to translate between metanet and native. There are a few technical issues to sort out here but most of them are trivial. Perhaps these machines could also terminate GRE tunnels or , so that companies/people that can't either get there natively, or don't have linux routers things, can. This kind of scenario would allow many of the geeks around to get onto v6, and get learning it in a 'read world' (4) environment whilst ISPs and so on talk about doing it. When they get around to it, there will already be a (small) userbase. And because Craig brought it up, multicast. Multicast gateways from APE/WIX onto the metanet. Sure, it makes it being multicast somewhat pointless (4), but again, its to build a userbase, and get some 'real world' (4) learning done. -- Nathan Ward (1) We've heard it all before. 'no address space problem' 'no userbase' (2) I'm not part of metanet or WLUG, so take this all as 42'nd hand information (3) WAND will run on FreeBSD AFAIK... (4) Chaotic, changing, non-controlled environment. (5) Actually, a little less, as there are some providers who have 'native' multicast to thier customers.