On 08/03/2011 11:14 AM, [email protected] wrote: > Folks, > > In the never ending game of policy whack-a-mole, we are offered the claim that > that the cost to a small to medium business to make its operational purpose > v6 address enabled is in the mid-five figures. > > For those of you who do smb consults, some numbers to make a hypothetical > shop consisting of a quarter rack of gear running nothing more goofy than > a couple of applications on a couple of ports, basicially, a dbms plus a > bit of gorp, say in central Kansas, to which some provider, say Kansas > Telekenesis and Telefriend has just made v6 happy. > > Having renumbered hq.af.mil some time ago, I'm expecting the 50k bogie to > add colons to some retail insurance office or mortuary in central Kansas > to be on the exceedingly good dope high side. > > Thanks in advance for real numbers, which I'll sanitize before using to > attmept to keep one policy playpen slightly less crazy than normal.
I have dual-stacked 4 networks so far, 3 small (soekris freebsd router) and one larger (3 7206vxr, all border+core). The first small one started with the soekris in v4-only (comcast), added a tunnel and then took a week or two of evenings to straighten out. The second (also comcast v4-only) changed out a netscreen to the soekris when we multihomed, then added a v6 tunnel and dual-stacked all 10 internal vlans; this took a few days of my time spread over a week or two (never v6-enabled the xp or win2003 systems, though. Linux, BSD, and vista+win7 all "just worked". I'm not sure if samba is properly v6-configured yet but it doesn't (so far) matter). The third small one took one evening (it was a duplicate of the first small one, both single-homed home systems with soekris freebsd routers.) The 7206 one is still progressing without (so far) a v6 IGP, and only a few vlans actually dual-stacked. It does have BGP6 working on two of the borders (and ibgp to all 3) so the system is native and not tunneled (except for one remote location with a v4-only T1 connection). So the most for a "small business" size system was the home one with the learning curve at maybe 2 weeks of evenings (probably 30 hours). The last was probably 4. -- Pete
