Re: IPv6 on SOHO routers?

2008-03-13 Thread Matthew Moyle-Croft
The only ADSL one listed Billion 7402R2 doesn't _actually_ do IPv6 yet, but it might if they release software for it! Which would be nice as we sell them to customers and would love to magically turn on IPv6 to them one day. The only IPv6 ADSL router I'm aware of, that I can buy in

Re: IPv6 on SOHO routers?

2008-03-13 Thread Justin M. Streiner
On Thu, 13 Mar 2008, Matthew Moyle-Croft wrote: A friend of mine who works for a company that owns another company that sells consumer CPE said Well, this is a volume business. Why release a feature that isn't being demanded much yet, when we could do it later and sell you ANOTHER CPE to

Re: IPv6 on SOHO routers?

2008-03-13 Thread Matthew Moyle-Croft
Justin M. Streiner wrote: On Thu, 13 Mar 2008, Matthew Moyle-Croft wrote: A friend of mine who works for a company that owns another company that sells consumer CPE said Well, this is a volume business. Why release a feature that isn't being demanded much yet, when we could do it later

Re: IPv6 on SOHO routers?

2008-03-13 Thread Mohacsi Janos
On Thu, 13 Mar 2008, Matthew Moyle-Croft wrote: The only ADSL one listed Billion 7402R2 doesn't _actually_ do IPv6 yet, but it might if they release software for it! Which would be nice as we sell them to customers and would love to magically turn on IPv6 to them one day. The only IPv6

cost of dual-stack vs cost of v6-only [Re: IPv6 on SOHO routers?]

2008-03-13 Thread Pekka Savola
On Wed, 12 Mar 2008, Leo Bicknell wrote: In a message written on Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 03:06:24PM -0500, Frank Bulk - iNAME wrote: Furthermore, he stated that networking equipment companies like Cisco will be moving away from IPv4 in 5 years or so. This is the first time I've heard this

Re: IPv6 on SOHO routers?

2008-03-13 Thread Joel Jaeggli
Mark Newton wrote: Those of us who use ADSL or (heaven forbid) Cable are kinda out of luck. I haven't yet found ADSL2+ CPE that does IPv6 over PPPoE or PPPoA out of the box. Any cablelebs certified docsis 3.0 CM or CMTS supports ipv6. Your cable provider will have to upgrade their CMTS

Re: IPv6 on SOHO routers?

2008-03-13 Thread Mark Prior
Matthew Moyle-Croft wrote: The only ADSL one listed Billion 7402R2 doesn't _actually_ do IPv6 yet, but it might if they release software for it! Which would be nice as we sell them to customers and would love to magically turn on IPv6 to them one day. Hi MMC, You might want to contribute

Re: cost of dual-stack vs cost of v6-only [Re: IPv6 on SOHO routers?]

2008-03-13 Thread David W. Hankins
On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 03:26:48PM +0200, Pekka Savola wrote: On Wed, 12 Mar 2008, Leo Bicknell wrote: ISP's are very good at one thing, driving out unnecessary cost. Running dual stack increases cost. While I'm not sure about the 5 year part, I'm sure ISP's will move to disable IPv4 support

Re: cost of dual-stack vs cost of v6-only [Re: IPv6 on SOHO routers?]

2008-03-13 Thread Pekka Savola
On Thu, 13 Mar 2008, David W. Hankins wrote: I don't know why Leo thinks so, but even I can observe the extra recurring support cost of having to work through two stacks with every customer that dials in as being far greater than any technology costs in either single-stack scenario. The

Re: cost of dual-stack vs cost of v6-only [Re: IPv6 on SOHO routers?]

2008-03-13 Thread Leo Bicknell
In a message written on Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 03:26:48PM +0200, Pekka Savola wrote: On Wed, 12 Mar 2008, Leo Bicknell wrote: ISP's are very good at one thing, driving out unnecessary cost. Running dual stack increases cost. While I'm not sure about the 5 year part, I'm sure ISP's will move to

Re: cost of dual-stack vs cost of v6-only [Re: IPv6 on SOHO routers?]

2008-03-13 Thread Pekka Savola
On Thu, 13 Mar 2008, Leo Bicknell wrote: 1) Early adopters deploy IPv6 while continuing to make most of their money off IPv4. We're already well into this state. 2) Substantially all ( 90%?) of the Internet is dual stacked, or has other transition mechanisms in place. Who has the other

Re: cost of dual-stack vs cost of v6-only [Re: IPv6 on SOHO routers?]

2008-03-13 Thread Leo Bicknell
In a message written on Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 05:18:16PM +0200, Pekka Savola wrote: Who has the other transition mechanisms in place? What is the cost of deploying those transition mechanisms? At present it's not obvious how you can explain to the bean counters that deploying these are

RE: cost of dual-stack vs cost of v6-only [Re: IPv6 on SOHO routers?]

2008-03-13 Thread Jamie Bowden
MS, Apple, Linux, *BSD are ALL dual stack out of the box currently. The core is IPv6/dual stack capable, even if it's not enabled everywhere, and a large chunk of Asia and Europe are running IPv6 right now. The US Govt. is under mandate to transition to v6 by the end of the year. The only

RE: cost of dual-stack vs cost of v6-only [Re: IPv6 on SOHO routers?]

2008-03-13 Thread michael.dillon
I don't know why Leo thinks so, but even I can observe the extra recurring support cost of having to work through two stacks with every customer that dials in as being far greater than any technology costs in either single-stack scenario. The 'recurring' part is the real killer. This

Re: cost of dual-stack vs cost of v6-only [Re: IPv6 on SOHO routers?]

2008-03-13 Thread David Barak
--- On Thu, 3/13/08, Leo Bicknell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now think hard about a prediction we'll still be running IPv4 in 20 years. A two decade transition period just does not fit this industry's history. To be fair, I've encourntered an awful lot of SNA which is still out there, so

v4 exhaustion and v6 impact [Re: cost of dual-stack vs v6-only]

2008-03-13 Thread Pekka Savola
I changed the subject line. On Thu, 13 Mar 2008, Leo Bicknell wrote: My point is that it seems somewhat premature to talk extensively of 2) - 3) transition because we haven't even figured out 1) - 2) yet. Getting to 2) is the challenge, from there it is straightforward. The driver for 1-2 is

Re: cost of dual-stack vs cost of v6-only [Re: IPv6 on SOHO routers?]

2008-03-13 Thread David Conrad
Jamie, On Mar 13, 2008, at 8:42 AM, Jamie Bowden wrote: MS, Apple, Linux, *BSD are ALL dual stack out of the box currently. The fact that the kernel may support IPv6 does not mean that IPv6 is actually usable (as events at NANOG, APRICOT, and the IETF have shown). There are lots of bits

Re: Data Center Migration Resource

2008-03-13 Thread Dennis Dayman
Wanted to thank all that replied. I am sending a few of you to my IT people for consideration. -Dennis

Re: v4 exhaustion and v6 impact [Re: cost of dual-stack vs v6-only]

2008-03-13 Thread Owen DeLong
While the goal may be good, a reality check might be in order. AFAICS, the impact will be that residential and similar usage will be more heavily NATted. Enterprises need to pay higher cost per public v4 address. IPv4 multihoming practises will evolve (e.g., instead of multihoming

Re: v4 exhaustion and v6 impact [Re: cost of dual-stack vs v6-only]

2008-03-13 Thread David Conrad
On Mar 13, 2008, at 9:48 AM, Pekka Savola wrote: Obviously DFZ deaggregation will increase but we still don't end up routing /32's globally. No, that's what we have IPv6 for ('cause, you know, IPv6 /32s are smaller than IPv4 /32s... or something...) :-) Regards, -drc

Re: cost of dual-stack vs cost of v6-only [Re: IPv6 on SOHO routers?]

2008-03-13 Thread John Curran
At 9:48 AM -0700 3/13/08, David Conrad wrote: What is _really_ missing is content accessible over IPv6 as it results in the chicken-or-egg problem: without content, few customers will request IPv6. Without customer requests for IPv6, it's hard to make the business case to deploy the

Re: v4 exhaustion and v6 impact [Re: cost of dual-stack vs v6-only]

2008-03-13 Thread Pekka Savola
On Thu, 13 Mar 2008, Owen DeLong wrote: While the goal may be good, a reality check might be in order. AFAICS, the impact will be that residential and similar usage will be more heavily NATted. Enterprises need to pay higher cost per public v4 address. IPv4 multihoming practises will evolve

Re: cost of dual-stack vs cost of v6-only [Re: IPv6 on SOHO routers?]

2008-03-13 Thread Randy Bush
and a large chunk of Asia and Europe are running IPv6 right now. I keep hearing this, but could you indicate what parts of Asia and Europe are running IPv6 right now? I'm aware, for example, that NTT is using IPv6 for their FLETS service, but that is an internal transport service not

Re: cost of dual-stack vs cost of v6-only [Re: IPv6 on SOHO routers?]

2008-03-13 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2008-03-13, David Conrad [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is _really_ missing is content accessible over IPv6 as it results in the chicken-or-egg problem: without content, few customers will request IPv6. There are already

Re: IPv6 on SOHO routers?

2008-03-13 Thread Andrew Burnette
Leo Bicknell wrote: In a message written on Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 03:06:24PM -0500, Frank Bulk - iNAME wrote: Furthermore, he stated that networking equipment companies like Cisco will be moving away from IPv4 in 5 years or so. This is the first time I've heard this posited -- I had a hard

Re: Tools to measure TCP connection speed

2008-03-13 Thread Wil Schultz
Son of a biscuit, they took the commands out of my 7200's and 6500's. You used to be able to just type ttcp and follow some prompts, I'm not sure that Cisco ever really documented much of it though. I had found it through DOTU back in the day. Quoted from Cisco about this: Note: The ttcp

Re: cost of dual-stack vs cost of v6-only [Re: IPv6 on SOHO routers?]

2008-03-13 Thread Andrew Burnette
Stuart Henderson wrote: On 2008-03-13, David Conrad [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is _really_ missing is content accessible over IPv6 as it results in the chicken-or-egg problem: without content, few customers will request

Re: cost of dual-stack vs cost of v6-only [Re: IPv6 on SOHO routers?]

2008-03-13 Thread David Conrad
Randy, actally, drc, here is where you and i diverge. there will never be demand for ipv6 from the end user. they just want their mtv, and do not care if it comes on ipv4, ipv6, or donkey-back. I agree. What I meant was that customers will demand content and since that content is

Re: cost of dual-stack vs cost of v6-only [Re: IPv6 on SOHO routers?]

2008-03-13 Thread David Conrad
There are already things like http://ipv6.google.com/, True, since yesterday. However, while I applaud their efforts, Google is still primarily a search engine. How much of the content Google serves up is accessible via IPv6? I might suggest reviewing

Re: cost of dual-stack vs cost of v6-only [Re: IPv6 on SOHO routers?]

2008-03-13 Thread Justin M. Streiner
On Thu, 13 Mar 2008, David Conrad wrote: There are already things like http://ipv6.google.com/, True, since yesterday. However, while I applaud their efforts, Google is still primarily a search engine. How much of the content Google serves up is accessible via IPv6? I might suggest

Re: IPv6 on SOHO routers?

2008-03-13 Thread Petri Helenius
Mohacsi Janos wrote: On Thu, 13 Mar 2008, Matthew Moyle-Croft wrote: Actually Cisco 850 series does not support IPv6, only 870 series. We tested earlier cisco models also: 830 series has ipv6 support. My colleague tested NetScreen routers: apart for the smallest devices they have

RE: IPv6 on SOHO routers?

2008-03-13 Thread Michael K. Smith - Adhost
The IPv6 support on 87x Cisco is nothing to write home about. It's not supported on most physical interfaces that exist on the devices. But it does work over tunnel interfaces if you have something on your lan to tunnel to. Pete It's not that bad. You can attach a v6 address to the

Re: IPv6 on SOHO routers?

2008-03-13 Thread Petri Helenius
Michael K. Smith - Adhost wrote: It's not that bad. You can attach a v6 address to the 802.11 interface and the FastEthernet interface, but you can't put one on a BVI which means you need two /64's if you want v6 on wireless and wired. That workaround does not work on the models with the

RE: IPv6 on SOHO routers?

2008-03-13 Thread Michael K. Smith - Adhost
-Original Message- From: Petri Helenius [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2008 3:49 PM To: Michael K. Smith - Adhost Cc: Mohacsi Janos; Matthew Moyle-Croft; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; nanog@merit.edu Subject: Re: IPv6 on SOHO routers? Michael K. Smith - Adhost wrote:

Re: IPv6 on SOHO routers?

2008-03-13 Thread Matthew Moyle-Croft
I have an 877m (no wireless): Vlan1 has an ipv6 address and and ipv6 nd prefix. All the devices plugged into the ethernet ports find out about IPv6 just peachy. c870-advipservicesk9-mz.124-15.T1.bin (Caveat: I'm running native dual stack over PPPoE because I can make the LNS do what I

Re: IPv6 on SOHO routers?

2008-03-13 Thread David Conrad
FWIW, I had reason to go over to a local Fry's (www.frys.com) and they had 2 SOHO routers that claimed to have IPv6 support: Linksys RVS4000 for $119.99 Linksys WRVS4400 for $209.99 No idea how well they support IPv6... Regards, -drc

Re: IPv6 on SOHO routers?

2008-03-13 Thread Bernhard Schmidt
David Conrad [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: FWIW, I had reason to go over to a local Fry's (www.frys.com) and they had 2 SOHO routers that claimed to have IPv6 support: Linksys RVS4000 for $119.99 Linksys WRVS4400 for $209.99 No idea how well they support IPv6... Looked at the manual, the

Re: cost of dual-stack vs cost of v6-only [Re: IPv6 on SOHO routers?]

2008-03-13 Thread Kevin Oberman
From: David Conrad [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2008 09:48:43 -0700 Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jamie, On Mar 13, 2008, at 8:42 AM, Jamie Bowden wrote: MS, Apple, Linux, *BSD are ALL dual stack out of the box currently. The fact that the kernel may support IPv6 does not mean

RE: IPv6 on SOHO routers?

2008-03-13 Thread Frank Bulk - iNAME
Joel: Besides the CM and CMTS itself, can the CPE attached to the CM use IPv6 if the CMTS has the right code to handle IPv6-based DHCP relay? To be clear, even if the CMTS doesn't have DOCSIS 3.0 support? Standing from a distance, I don't see why IPv6 on the routing piece of the CMTS has to