Hi James, I don't think anyone really has done it large scale properly. I've had basically nothing from anyone. Given my knowledge of where most large BRAS/Cable vendors are upto - I don't think anyone could have. (Cisco won't have high end v6 pppoe support until late this year!). There's a lot of people who clearly don't work for ISPs yammering on about the Zen of v6, but no one with real experience. Scary huh? I'm meant to have 250,000 customers running it by Christmas! MMC On 05/02/2009, at 2:44 PM, Mr. James W. Laferriere wrote:
Hello Matthew , See way below ...
On Thu, 5 Feb 2009, Matthew Moyle-Croft wrote:
Scott Howard wrote:
On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 4:16 PM, Patrick W. Gilmore <patrick@ianai.net
wrote:
On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 5:20 PM, Matthew Moyle-Croft <mmc@internode.com.au
wrote:
but my point was that people are starting to assume that v6 WILL mean static allocations for all customers. By design IPv6 should mean _less_ static allocations than IPv4 - in the event that a client disconnects/reconnects and gets a new /64 then their network *should* automatically handle that fact, with all clients automagically renumbering themselves to the new /64, updating DNS, etc. Local communications won't be impacted as they should be using the link-local address. _should_
As I asked before - I'm really keen to actually do this stuff - but all I get is people who haven't done it telling me theory and not how it works in practise in a real ISP of some scale. Telling customers "well, you might get renumbered randomly" isn't going to work, no matter what the theory about it all is. They do crazy and unexpected things and bleat about it even if you told them not to. At worse they stop paying you and leave!
The bit that isn't clear at the moment is if (and how well) that will actually work in practice. And that brings us back to the good old catch-22 of ISPs not supporting IPv6 because consumer CPE doesn't support it, and CPE not supporting it because ISP don't... Tell me about it. As I asked before - has ANYONE done this before? ie. fully dualstacked to customers? Or is it still
My hope is that PD will be used for the majority and statics will be small in number. My FEAR is that customers have already been conditioned that v6 will mean statics for everyone because v6 has so many! (This has already been the assumption many have made from the customer side). theory?
Has Anyone responded to you on/off list with even a close approximation of showing they have accomplished what you've requested ? I am beginning to be worried that no one [has|is willing to divulge] that they have accomplished this . One would think that someone would at least pipe up just for the bragging factor .
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