IPv6 - a noobs prespective

Wed Feb 9 18:39:45 UTC 2011

On Wed, 9 Feb 2011, Mike Lyon wrote:

> With the recent allocation of the last existing IPv4 /8s (which now kind of
> puts pressure on going v6), it would be wonderful if at the next couple of
> NANOGs if there could be an IPv6 for dummies session or two :)

I think these could be pretty valuable in the light of the last of thae 
allocations, and I would expect that even the RIRs through their outreach 
have done the same.

NANOG archives, especially of previous sessions (look for the Sunday 
tutorials) will help.

>
> -Mike
>
>
> On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 10:22 AM, Jack Bates <jbates at brightok.net> wrote:
>
>> On 2/9/2011 12:03 PM, William Herrin wrote:
>>
>>> The thing that terrifies me about deploying IPv6 is that apps
>>> compatible with both are programmed to attempt IPv6 before IPv4. This
>>> means my first not-quite-correct IPv6 deployments are going to break
>>> my apps that are used to not having and therefore not trying IPv6. But
>>> that's not the worst part... as the folks my customers interact with
>>> over the next couple of years make their first not-quite-correct IPv6
>>> deployments, my access to them is going to break again. And again. And
>>> again. And I won't have the foggiest idea who's next until I get the
>>> call that such-and-such isn't working right.
>>>
>>
>> What scares me most is that every time I upgrade a router to support needed
>> hardware or some badly needed IPv6 feature, something else breaks. Sometimes
>> it's just the router crashes on a specific IPv6 command entered at CLI (C)
>> or as nasty as NSR constantly crashing the slave (J); the fixes generally
>> requiring me to upgrade again to the latest cutting edge releases which
>> everyone hates (where I'm sure I'll find MORE bugs).
>>
>> The worst is when you're the first to find the bug(which I'm not even sure
>> how it's possible given how simplistic my configs are, isis multitopology,
>> iBGP, NSR, a few acls and route-maps/policies), it takes 3-6 months or so to
>> track it down, and then it's put only in the next upcoming release (not out
>> yet) and backported to the last release.
>>
>>
>> Jack (hates all routers equally, doesn't matter who makes it)
>>
>>
>

wfms