Deploying 6to4 outbound routes at the border (was Re: IPv6 news)

Sat Oct 15 18:09:48 UTC 2005

On Sat, 15 Oct 2005 00:22:15 -0500
 Nicholas Suan <nsuan at nonexiste.net> wrote:
> 
> Daniel Roesen wrote:
> 
> >On Fri, Oct 14, 2005 at 10:45:33PM -0400, Todd Vierling wrote:
> >  
> >
> >>Maybe to start -- but again, what kind of 6to4 traffic level are we
> >>expecting yet?
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >Peak or average? Think twice before answering. :-)
> >
> >I'm told there are 6to4 relays seeing in excess of 100mbps. Not bursts.
> >Can you imagine trying to handle 100mbps "internet mix" traffic process
> >switched? :-Z Not even talking about the peaks.
> >  
> >
> They may be handling 100mbps but they also have a global scope. But all 
> the traffic statistics for 6to4 relays I've seen push several orders of 
> magnitude *less* traffic then that. Anyone have any real numbers?

According to Pekka in this paper

http://www.6net.org/publications/papers/csc-6to4.pdf

"The traffic of our 6to4 relay has been quite modest; in August 2004, 
the ”steady state” was only about (a relatively constant) 300-500 
kbit/s at 50-100 packets per second. However, quite often there 
are peaks to 10 Mbit/s and even beyond."

Regards
Marshall Eubanks