On Jun 9, 2011, at 2:06 AM, Jeroen Massar wrote:
On 2011-Jun-09 10:39, Saku Ytti wrote:
On (2011-06-09 00:55 -0700), Owen DeLong wrote:
To be an IPv6 TIer 1, one has to peer with other IPv6 Tier 1s. HE has aggressively tried to improve the situation through promiscuous peering in every way possible. If you are interested in peering with HE and you have a presence at any of the exchange points we are at, send an email to peering at HE.NET and we will peer.
I look forward for IPv4 to go away, as in future I can have full free connectivity through HE to every other shop who all have full free connectivity to HE. Something went terribly wrong in IPv4 land, where we're being unfairly forced to pay to access other networks through them.
You could, today, setup a IPv6 over IPv4 tunnel and HE will pay for the IPv4 transit at the cost of a little smaller lower MTU ;)
Just need to find folks on the other side to terminate those tunnels who find also that using a free service is a good idea for a commercial setup. I guess all this free IPv6 transit has a perfect SLA of course with quick resolution for problems and of course a proper clean prefix feed with properly aggregated prefixes.
I was an HE Tunnel users long before I joined the company. In my experience, our free tunnel service is quite reliable and provides excellent connectivity. HE has been happily exchanging BGP and routing my /48 for several years. The high quality of this service and the quick resolution to my (very few) problems even on a free service is one of the things that attracted me to join the company. However, for those that want production-grade business-class tunnels, we have launched a paid tunnel service as well. Owen