Transition Planning for IPv6 as mandated by the US Govt

Joe Abley jabley at ca.afilias.info
Mon Mar 17 12:25:30 UTC 2008



On 17-Mar-2008, at 06:07, <michael.dillon at bt.com>  
<michael.dillon at bt.com> wrote:

>> If you're providing content or network services on v6 and you
>> don't have both a Teredo and 6to4 relay, you should - there
>> are more v6 users on those two than there are on native
>> v6[1]. Talk to me and I'll give you a pre-built FreeBSD image
>> that does it, boot off compact flash or hard drives. Soekris
>> (~$350USD, incl. power supply and CF card), or regular
>> server/whatever PC.
>
> Pardon me for interfering with your lucrative business here,
> but anyone contemplating running a Teredo relay and 6to4 relay
> should first understand the capacity issues before buying a
> little embedded box to stick in their network.

Do you imagine that Soekris are giving Nathan kick-backs for  
mentioning the price of their boxes on NANOG? :-)

I'm sure for many small networks a Soekris box would do fine. For the  
record, FreeBSD also runs on more capable hardware.


Joe




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