This will stop when <s>peace in the whole world</s>native IPv6 to every home will occur, i.e. never ;)
On 12.05.13 10:41, Ivan Pepelnjak wrote: > Pim’s reply prompted me to actually read the docs on the web site. LANE > reinvented on top of IP. RFC 1925 sect 11 strikes again. Will this > bridging madness never stop? > > > > Sorry, couldn’t resist > > Ivan > > > > *From:*[email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] *On > Behalf Of *Pim van Pelt > *Sent:* Saturday, May 11, 2013 12:27 PM > *To:* Max Tulyev > *Cc:* [email protected] > *Subject:* Re: http://www.6assist.net/ - call for test > > > > Hoi, > > > > 2013/5/10 Max Tulyev <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> > > The website of that project is http://www.6assist.net/ > It acts like a virtual media IXP, and anybody have own ASN can join it. > > As others pointed out, I do not really see the problem you are solving > [well, I see it, but I do not agree that the problem exists]. If you > look at the larger more established tunnelbrokers, they will invariably > all have multiple points of presence, HE / SixXS as two examples. Here, > the ISP takes care of the IPv6 network, and the IPv4 endpoint is > topologically close. But, I will agree that some localities do not have > any reasonable coverage, and in those cases, MPTP may help. > > > > Some questions: > - does this infrastructure bridge ethernet to IP (that's what I believe > from your website)? I ask because somebody may be interested to use this > for IPv4 as well. > > - does it support (ethernet / IP) multicast (v4 and/or v6?) > > - does it use compression? If it doesn't, then what is your 'shared > segment' MTU? Does that work well for you? Note: if you use header > compression you can probably easily retrieve the wasted bytes in > protocol overhead, and still provide a 1500b MTU. > > - I understand that the hub will provide authentication - what is the > design for this authentication mechanism? > > - What happens if the hub goes away? Do the clients cache the IPv4 > endpoints of their peers, in other words, is transient failure of the > hub impacting anything? > > > > Good luck with your project! And please, pretty please, do not recreate > the 3ffe::/16 mess! > > -- > Pim van Pelt <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> > PBVP1-RIPE - http://www.ipng.nl/ >
