Apple Airport Extreme IPv6 problems?
Apple is nice enough to provide an automatic v6 tunnel from their new Airport Extreme units. They even get all the machines on the network to participate -- by default! At first this did not seem to be much of an issue, it was even pretty cool. However, I noticed as I roll out more v6 services to support native v6 users, I am impacting the network performance of almost all of the Apple airport population that has an inefficient tunnel configuration. The user obviously will take the AAAA v6 published IP over the v4 A record. Don't get me wrong v6 tunnels are great, when you opt-in and know what you are getting into. For example, my grandparents tunnel in California goes to Virginia. This impacts the user experience rather significantly with the first hop being nearly 100ms where their services to California are ~20ms. It's painful for a lot of users, especially when they don't even know what's going on. Has anyone else ran into this? It's not pretty for a CDN or anyone trying to provide a quality service over v6, shunting users over inefficiently tunneled routes does not sit well with me. I think Apple has made a mistake by enabling this by default. -Barrett
I think we will never move to IPv6 if vendors don't do things like the one in the Airport. However, in order to make this "transition" phase where there may be a possible degradation of the RTT, we need to cooperation of the operators, for example deploying 6to4 relays in their networks. As many 6to4 relays exists (even if they are closed only to the customers of that network), less this will be problem. I understand that sometimes is not easy to provide native IPv6 services, but deploying a 6to4 relay (same as a Teredo Relay) is a very simple and inexpensive step, but it helps a lot. In regions such as Africa and LAC, where upstream b/w is expensive, I'm helping the ISPs to setup those, in order to avoid traffic going thru the upstream links and staying local. Remember that even if we don't have products such the Airport, our customers have OS which come with IPv6 enabled by default and they try 6to4 or Teredo when they don't have native connectivity, so is not a problem that we can hide from. We really need to move one step forward and avoid support calls, for example. Regards, Jordi
De: Barrett Lyon <blyon@blyon.com> Responder a: <owner-nanog@merit.edu> Fecha: Sat, 15 Sep 2007 09:05:43 -0700 Para: <nanog@merit.edu> Asunto: Apple Airport Extreme IPv6 problems?
Apple is nice enough to provide an automatic v6 tunnel from their new Airport Extreme units. They even get all the machines on the network to participate -- by default! At first this did not seem to be much of an issue, it was even pretty cool.
However, I noticed as I roll out more v6 services to support native v6 users, I am impacting the network performance of almost all of the Apple airport population that has an inefficient tunnel configuration. The user obviously will take the AAAA v6 published IP over the v4 A record.
Don't get me wrong v6 tunnels are great, when you opt-in and know what you are getting into. For example, my grandparents tunnel in California goes to Virginia. This impacts the user experience rather significantly with the first hop being nearly 100ms where their services to California are ~20ms. It's painful for a lot of users, especially when they don't even know what's going on.
Has anyone else ran into this? It's not pretty for a CDN or anyone trying to provide a quality service over v6, shunting users over inefficiently tunneled routes does not sit well with me. I think Apple has made a mistake by enabling this by default.
-Barrett
I think we will never move to IPv6 if vendors don't do things like the one in the Airport. However, in order to make this "transition" phase where there may be a possible degradation of the RTT, we need to cooperation of the operators, for example deploying 6to4 relays in their networks.
And just what should operators do to cooperate? Are you aware of any documents that describe how to set up 6to4 relays in an ISP network? --Michael Dillon
On 17/09/2007, at 2:38 AM, <michael.dillon@bt.com> <michael.dillon@bt.com> wrote:
I think we will never move to IPv6 if vendors don't do things like the one in the Airport. However, in order to make this "transition" phase where there may be a possible degradation of the RTT, we need to cooperation of the operators, for example deploying 6to4 relays in their networks.
And just what should operators do to cooperate?
Are you aware of any documents that describe how to set up 6to4 relays in an ISP network?
I believe there are books that document it. Personally, I've got a bunch of slides - if you think that they'll be of use I can clean them up. I intend to add some step-by-step textual stuff to http:// ipv6.cluepon.net/ but haven't had a chance yet, I've only really covered end user Teredo stuff - please add stuff if you can. -- Nathan Ward
Some months ago I already circulated in this list instructions that I've provided in other IPv6 related exploder for doing so ... Introduction to 6to4 https://lists.afrinic.net/pipermail/afripv6-discuss/2007/000061.html Configuring 6to4 Relay in Cisco https://lists.afrinic.net/pipermail/afripv6-discuss/2007/000066.html Configuring 6to4 Relay in Linux https://lists.afrinic.net/pipermail/afripv6-discuss/2007/000067.html Configuring 6to4 Relay in BSD https://lists.afrinic.net/pipermail/afripv6-discuss/2007/000068.html Configuring 6to4 Relay in Windows https://lists.afrinic.net/pipermail/afripv6-discuss/2007/000074.html Configuring Teredo Server/Relay in Linux/BSD https://lists.afrinic.net/pipermail/afripv6-discuss/2007/000080.html Regards, Jordi
De: <michael.dillon@bt.com> Responder a: <owner-nanog@merit.edu> Fecha: Sun, 16 Sep 2007 15:38:21 +0100 Para: <nanog@merit.edu> Conversación: Apple Airport Extreme IPv6 problems? Asunto: RE: Apple Airport Extreme IPv6 problems?
I think we will never move to IPv6 if vendors don't do things like the one in the Airport. However, in order to make this "transition" phase where there may be a possible degradation of the RTT, we need to cooperation of the operators, for example deploying 6to4 relays in their networks.
And just what should operators do to cooperate?
Are you aware of any documents that describe how to set up 6to4 relays in an ISP network?
--Michael Dillon
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Barrett Lyon
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JORDI PALET MARTINEZ
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Nathan Ward