IPv6 deployment excuses

Sun Jul 3 10:27:08 UTC 2016

On 3 July 2016 at 12:15, Mark Tinka <mark.tinka at seacom.mu> wrote:

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> On 3/Jul/16 12:01, Ruairi Carroll wrote:
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> Core of the issue is that we _need_ to get an ICMP message back to the
> original "real server" who sent it. It's a non-issue in the SP space, but
> imagine if your ECMP groups were stateful in both directions...
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> Okay.
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> Think about it in layers, with each little piece adding up to the overall
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> I understand your points - to your comment, my question is around whether
> it is cheaper (for you) to just run IPv6 in lieu of IPv6 and IPv4.
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Probably equal cost (ha ha) to pick one or the other. However since this
conversation was started about people using excuses to not deploy....and
being a stub/content provider, your main goal is reachability, to which v4
is still king.

So you have your hand forced to pick v4 for now.

/Ruairi

> Mark.
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