IPv6 end user addressing

Thu Aug 11 17:31:23 UTC 2011

This same Vendor C wants us to upgrade our 7206VXR's to ASR1K's just so we
have the (hopefully working) IPv6 features in IOS-XE that are broken in
12.x.

Frank

-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Newton [mailto:newton at internode.com.au] 
Sent: Wednesday, August 10, 2011 10:12 PM
To: Cameron Byrne
Cc: NANOG
Subject: Re: IPv6 end user addressing

On 11/08/2011, at 12:30 PM, Cameron Byrne wrote:
> Finally a useful post in this thread.  Good work on the deployment of real
ipv6!
> 

Thanks. And thanks to Vendor-C for helping us through it.  The IPv6
Broadband
featureset on the ASR platform starting from IOS-XR 3.1 is a vast
improvement
on its predecessors.

Biggest hassle with IPv6 in production right now:  DNS support is woefully 
undercooked.  I don't think anyone has put anywhere near as much effort into
making it fluid, user-friendly, and automated.  Simple questions like, "How
are reverse mappings supposed to work when you can't predict an end-user's
address?" have no good answer.  If any systems folks want a nice meaty
problem
domain to focus their efforts on, DNS would be da shiznit.

  - mark

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