Auto-configuring IPv6 transition mechanisms on customer devices

Wed Jan 2 15:47:00 UTC 2019

On 1/2/19 10:10 AM, Lee Howard wrote:
> 
> DHCPv6 is fine.
> 
> Jordi did a panel a year ago at APNIC where he browbeat vendors about 
> supporting transition mechanisms. The summary is that they said they 
> have code, they just don't want to ship everything, because it's more to 
> maintain. 
> https://blog.apnic.net/2017/11/09/ce-vendors-share-thoughts-ipv6-support/
> 
> This led to the draft he mentioned upthread, requiring support. OpenWRT 
> is still the only thing I've seen that wasn't a customer-specific build.

DHCPv6 looks perfectly fine for distributing LW4o6/MAP config info. 
That makes perfect sense as it's essentially part of address/interface 
configuration just for accessing an alternate protocol.

I was referring more to the dearth of broader-range management features 
on Ubiquiti gear in particular.  Get what you pay for, I guess.  It 
slings packets just fine.

> Open source software. For stateless transition mechanisms (MAP/LW4o6) it 
> can be really fast. We have a build I'd be happy to share, if you want.

Oh I was certainly planning to use a OSS software platform.  I'm 
sub-Gbps at the moment.  I could probably do it on a RasPi.  The SNABB 
lwAFTR option Mikael referred to looks like it would work fine but has 
some deployment complexities related to its focus on higher performance 
that are likely not relevant in my present situation, so I'd certainly 
be interested in other options.
-- 
Brandon Martin