Another driver for v6?

Wed Oct 29 22:48:50 UTC 2008

I personally agree with that. Now only if I can convince our management
to start work on that.

isabel dias wrote:
> question - "beginning a small deployment of IPv6 now
> even if its just for internal usage"
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> Sure! there are plenty of reasons .........most obvious one is to feel confortable about ipv6
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> --- On Wed, 10/29/08, Steven King <sking at kingrst.com> wrote:
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>> From: Steven King <sking at kingrst.com>
>> Subject: Re: Another driver for v6?
>> To: "Bruce Curtis" <bruce.curtis at ndsu.edu>
>> Cc: nanog at nanog.org
>> Date: Wednesday, October 29, 2008, 11:32 PM
>> Kind of a side question but we have not implemented IPv6 in
>> our network
>> yet, nor have we made any plans to do this in the near
>> future. Our
>> management does not see a need for it as our customer base
>> is not
>> requesting it at this time.
>>
>> Does anyone see any benefits to beginning a small
>> deployment of IPv6 now
>> even if its just for internal usage?
>>
>> Bruce Curtis wrote:
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>>> On Oct 29, 2008, at 10:32 AM, Joe Maimon wrote:
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>>>> Mikael Abrahamsson wrote:
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>>>>> On Tue, 28 Oct 2008, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
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>>>>> They claim they will deploy IPv6 in their
>>>>>           
>> worldwide enterprise
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>>>>> network, do away with central based enterprise
>>>>>           
>> firewalls and do
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>>>>> host-to-host IPv6+IPSEC, Active Directory
>>>>>           
>> based certificates for
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>>>>> authentication.
>>>>>           
>>>> You know that windows 2000 was released with this
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>> functionality. Its
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>>>> nothing new and it is not ipv6 specific.
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>>>> Who is using it precisely?
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>>>   Microsoft, on 200,000 computers at the time of the
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>> paper below.
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>> http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb735174.aspx
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>>>   We have a couple of departments using IPsec here and
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>> one more
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>>> seriously looking at it.  (Mainly a matter of finding
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>> time to test and
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>>> implement.)
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>>> Plus there are at least a couple of other
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>> Universities.
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>> http://members.microsoft.com/CustomerEvidence/Search/EvidenceDetails.aspx?EvidenceID=14258&LanguageID=1
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>> https://members.microsoft.com/customerevidence/search/EvidenceDetails.aspx?EvidenceID=14205&LanguageID=1
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>>>   And I see a City has been added to the list.
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>> http://www.microsoft.com/casestudies/casestudy.aspx?casestudyid=4000000161
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>> http://www.cu.ipv6tf.org/pdf/v6security_6Sense_Jan2006.pdf
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>>> ---
>>> Bruce Curtis                        
>>>       
>> bruce.curtis at ndsu.edu
>>     
>>> Certified NetAnalyst II                701-231-8527
>>> North Dakota State University
>>>
>>>
>>>       
>> -- 
>> Steve King
>>
>> Cisco Certified Network Associate
>> CompTIA Linux+ Certified Professional
>> CompTIA A+ Certified Professional
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