ipv6 transit over tunneled connection

Fri May 14 20:36:28 UTC 2010

On May 14, 2010, at 3:43 PM, Brielle Bruns wrote:

> (Sent from my Blackberry, please avoid the flames as I can't do inline quoting)
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> Native IPv6 is a crapshoot.  About the only people in the US that I've seen that are no-bullshit IPv6 native ready is Hurricane Electric. NTT is supposedly as well but I can't speak as to where they have connectivity.

I can say that we (NTT) have been IPv6 enabled or ready at all customer ports since ~2003.  Anyone else who has not gotten there in the intervening years may have problems supporting you for your IPv4 as well :)

> Being that there's issues that leave us unable to get native connectivity, we have a BGP tunnel thanks to HE (with a 20ms latency from Seattle to Freemont).

You should be able to get native IPv6 in Seattle from a variety of providers.  If you're not finding it, you're not really looking (IMHO).

> Tunnels suck if not done correctly.  We sometimes have faster and more reliable connections through IPv6, so ymmv.

The tunneled part of the "IPv6" internet fell to the wayside a long time ago, there are stragglers and I have even seen people try to peer over tunnels in 2010, but anyone still adding that level of overlay (v6-over-v4) may find themselves in a world of hurt soon enough.

- Jared (Curious about what incumbent carrier plans are for end-user - eg qwest, att, vz resi)