Re: Definitive Guide to IPv6 adoption

2010-10-19 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 09:27:21PM -0700, George Bonser wrote: I have a feeling that IP addresses will now be used in ways that people have not envisioned them being used before. Given a surplus of any resource, people find creative ways of using it. Encoding high-resolution geographic

RE: Definitive Guide to IPv6 adoption

2010-10-19 Thread George Bonser
-Original Message- From: Eugen Leitl Sent: Tuesday, October 19, 2010 1:18 AM To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: Definitive Guide to IPv6 adoption On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 09:27:21PM -0700, George Bonser wrote: I have a feeling that IP addresses will now be used in ways that

Re: Definitive Guide to IPv6 adoption

2010-10-19 Thread Owen DeLong
On Oct 18, 2010, at 1:10 PM, Jack Bates wrote: On 10/18/2010 1:20 PM, sth...@nethelp.no wrote: I still haven't seen any good argument for why residential users need /48s. No, I don't think that makes all the address assignments the same size is a particularly relevant or convincing

Re: Only 5x IPv4 /8 remaining at IANA

2010-10-19 Thread Owen DeLong
Servers work just fine over tunnels if necessary too. Get your public-facing content and services on IPv6 as fast as possible. Make IPv6 available to your customers as quickly as possible too. Finally, your internal IT resources (other than your support department(s)) can probably wait a little

Re: Definitive Guide to IPv6 adoption

2010-10-19 Thread Owen DeLong
On Oct 18, 2010, at 2:39 PM, Doug Barton wrote: On Mon, 18 Oct 2010, Owen DeLong wrote: I think it's generally a bad idea. /48 is the design architecture for IPv6. It allows for significant innovation in the SOHO arena that we haven't accounted for in some of our current thinking. Q:

Re: Definitive Guide to IPv6 adoption

2010-10-19 Thread Owen DeLong
On Oct 18, 2010, at 5:45 PM, Marshall Eubanks wrote: On Oct 18, 2010, at 8:16 PM, Robert E. Seastrom wrote: sth...@nethelp.no writes: I still haven't seen any good argument for why residential users need /48s. No, I don't think that makes all the address assignments the same size is

Re: Definitive Guide to IPv6 adoption

2010-10-19 Thread Owen DeLong
On Oct 18, 2010, at 7:24 PM, Doug Barton wrote: On 10/18/2010 5:16 PM, Robert E. Seastrom wrote: sth...@nethelp.no writes: I still haven't seen any good argument for why residential users need /48s. No, I don't think that makes all the address assignments the same size is a particularly

Re: Definitive Guide to IPv6 adoption

2010-10-19 Thread Owen DeLong
On Oct 18, 2010, at 6:25 PM, David Conrad wrote: RS, On Oct 18, 2010, at 2:16 PM, Robert E. Seastrom wrote: If we were to give a /48 to every human on the face of the planet, we would use about .25 of the total available IPv6 address space. Sure. I once did the math that suggested

Re: Definitive Guide to IPv6 adoption

2010-10-19 Thread Owen DeLong
On Oct 18, 2010, at 10:53 PM, Jack Bates wrote: On 10/18/2010 7:16 PM, Robert E. Seastrom wrote: You are to be commended for your leadership in conserving space. Our children will surely be grateful that thanks to your efforts they have 99.9% of IPv6 space left to work with rather than

Re: Definitive Guide to IPv6 adoption

2010-10-19 Thread Robert E. Seastrom
George Bonser gbon...@seven.com writes: You are to be commended for your leadership in conserving space. Our children will surely be grateful that thanks to your efforts they have 99.9% of IPv6 space left to work with rather than the paltry 99.9975% that might have been their

RE: Definitive Guide to IPv6 adoption

2010-10-19 Thread Ben Butler
Hi, Another way of looking at it would be what would the world population need to be in order to exhaust all of the space v6 based on /48s /56s or /64s per head / household - and is this population number ever going to happen in what time conceivable time frame. Another interesting

Re: Definitive Guide to IPv6 adoption

2010-10-19 Thread Lee
On 10/19/10, Owen DeLong o...@delong.com wrote: On Oct 18, 2010, at 1:10 PM, Jack Bates wrote: On 10/18/2010 1:20 PM, sth...@nethelp.no wrote: I still haven't seen any good argument for why residential users need /48s. No, I don't think that makes all the address assignments the same size

RE: Definitive Guide to IPv6 adoption

2010-10-19 Thread Ben Butler
Hi, Maybe we should reserve the first couple of bits to serve as a planet identifier, so that once we have colonized the heavens Star Trek Federation style we can route to all of those Billions of life forms. Routing convergence times shouldn’t be too much of an issue even with light version

Re: Only 5x IPv4 /8 remaining at IANA

2010-10-19 Thread Jens Link
valdis.kletni...@vt.edu writes: Those people are next on my hit list, after we've finally eliminated those who still talk about class A/B/C addresses. :) You are going to kill about 90% of all net-/sysadmins? SCNR Jens --

Re: Definitive Guide to IPv6 adoption

2010-10-19 Thread Tony Finch
On Tue, 19 Oct 2010, Owen DeLong wrote: There are advantages to being able to use 16 bits to build various forms of hierarchical topology on a dynamic basis within a SOHO environment. If we reduce that to 8 bits, we will block innovations that are currently underway in this space. Can you

Re: Pica8 - Open Source Cloud Switch

2010-10-19 Thread Lin Pica8
Hello, To have a better overview of a Cloud (or OpenFlow) Switch, I would greatly appreciate to invite you to a further reading of the presentation entitled FI technologies on cloud computing and trusty networking from our partner, Chunghwa Telecom (Leading ISP in Taiwan) :

Re: network name 101100010100110.net

2010-10-19 Thread Roland Perry
In article 201010190123.o9j1njra013...@mail.r-bonomi.com, Robert Bonomi bon...@mail.r-bonomi.com writes Not to mention the fact that the company was originally _named_ Minnesota Mining Manufacturing, and that '3M' was *just* a logo and trademark. I recall that in the UK, before Nominet

Re: Pica8 - Open Source Cloud Switch

2010-10-19 Thread Stefan
On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 10:57 AM, Mark Smith na...@85d5b20a518b8f6864949bd940457dc124746ddc.nosense.org wrote: On Mon, 18 Oct 2010 13:21:29 +0100 Nick Hilliard n...@foobar.org wrote: On 18/10/2010 12:25, Lin Pica8 wrote: We are starting to distribute Pica8 Open Source Cloud Switches :

Re: Only 5x IPv4 /8 remaining at IANA

2010-10-19 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Tue, 19 Oct 2010 13:49:10 +0200, Jens Link said: valdis.kletni...@vt.edu writes: Those people are next on my hit list, after we've finally eliminated those who still talk about class A/B/C addresses. :) You are going to kill about 90% of all net-/sysadmins? Do you *really* want

Re: Definitive Guide to IPv6 adoption

2010-10-19 Thread Dan White
On 18/10/10 19:24 -0700, Doug Barton wrote: On 10/18/2010 5:16 PM, Robert E. Seastrom wrote: sth...@nethelp.no writes: I still haven't seen any good argument for why residential users need /48s. No, I don't think that makes all the address assignments the same size is a particularly relevant

Re: Definitive Guide to IPv6 adoption

2010-10-19 Thread Jack Bates
On 10/19/2010 4:29 AM, Owen DeLong wrote: No... ARIN hands out a MINIMUM /32. A medium sized ISP should be asking for larger. ME: I really need larger space ARIN: We don't see how you can justify it, and we hardly ever give larger than /32 THE END or, if you have larger POPs, start

Re: Only 5x IPv4 /8 remaining at IANA

2010-10-19 Thread David Freedman
Do you *really* want somebody working on your network that gets confused by a reference to 213/8 because it's in Class-C space? Or spots an address which uses letters and colons and looks syntactically incorrect to them? Do you really want untrained people working on your network? --

RE: Only 5x IPv4 /8 remaining at IANA

2010-10-19 Thread John van Oppen
I would say for most of our customers, especially in the hosting space, a class C is a /24, they just don't know networking at all and build their hosting lans using /24s for each vlan. Very few of the requests that we get are submitted using CIDR notation. Personally, I think this is a big

ATT or ATT Wireless contact

2010-10-19 Thread Andy Ringsmuth
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Re: Pica8 - Open Source Cloud Switch

2010-10-19 Thread Donald Eastlake
On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 11:00 AM, Peter Ashwood-Smith peter.ashwoodsm...@huawei.com wrote: ... a) bigger layer 2 networks with Vmware type mobility and no IP address changes. Technolgies in this space are much more than just L2 switching, its L2 switching on larger scales with encapsulation,

Re: network name 101100010100110.net

2010-10-19 Thread David Shaw
On Oct 19, 2010, at 8:40 AM, Roland Perry wrote: In article 20101018024021.gc8...@vacation.karoshi.com.?, bmann...@vacation.karoshi.com writes the leading character restriction was lifted when the company 3com was created. its been nearly 18 years since that advice held

Re: Definitive Guide to IPv6 adoption

2010-10-19 Thread Doug Barton
On 10/19/2010 6:24 AM, Dan White wrote: But I still feel strongly that a /48 assignment model for residential customers is right for our environment. Perfectly reasonable. If you've analyzed your situation and come to that conclusion who am I to argue? Please note, I'm NOT saying, You must

IPv6 BGP MIB

2010-10-19 Thread Matthew Petach
Apologies in advance for the question, as network monitoring is only slightly relevant to network operations... I've been digging and poking and scratching my head, and from what I've been able to find, there doesn't seem to be an IPv6-aware BGP4 MIB in existence. The closest item I could find

RE: Definitive Guide to IPv6 adoption

2010-10-19 Thread Schiller, Heather A (HeatherSkanks)
-Original Message- From: Jack Bates [mailto:jba...@brightok.net] Sent: Monday, October 18, 2010 5:12 PM To: Franck Martin Cc: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: Definitive Guide to IPv6 adoption On 10/18/2010 3:51 PM, Franck Martin wrote: So they can't run their own services from home and

RE: network name 101100010100110.net

2010-10-19 Thread Deepak Jain
On Oct 19, 2010, at 8:40 AM, Roland Perry wrote: In article 20101018024021.gc8...@vacation.karoshi.com.?, bmann...@vacation.karoshi.com writes the leading character restriction was lifted when the company 3com was created. its been nearly 18 years since that advice

RE: network name 101100010100110.net

2010-10-19 Thread Nathan Eisenberg
I'm assuming we aren't making jokes here, but 3com.com was created in 1986: I'm confused. 3com.com would not appear to be entirely numerical. Or maybe someone spiked my coffee this morning. Best Regards, Nathan Eisenberg

Re: IPv6 BGP MIB

2010-10-19 Thread Chris Tracy
Hi Matt, I've been digging and poking and scratching my head, and from what I've been able to find, there doesn't seem to be an IPv6-aware BGP4 MIB in existence. The closest item I could find was a draft MIB that has already expired: http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-idr-bgp4-mibv2-10

Re: network name 101100010100110.net

2010-10-19 Thread bmanning
On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 05:24:58PM +, Nathan Eisenberg wrote: I'm assuming we aren't making jokes here, but 3com.com was created in 1986: I'm confused. 3com.com would not appear to be entirely numerical. Or maybe someone spiked my coffee this morning. Best Regards, Nathan

Re: Definitive Guide to IPv6 adoption

2010-10-19 Thread Owen DeLong
On Oct 19, 2010, at 4:25 AM, Ben Butler wrote: Hi, Another way of looking at it would be what would the world population need to be in order to exhaust all of the space v6 based on /48s /56s or /64s per head / household - and is this population number ever going to happen in what time

Re: Definitive Guide to IPv6 adoption

2010-10-19 Thread Owen DeLong
On Oct 19, 2010, at 5:21 AM, Tony Finch wrote: On Tue, 19 Oct 2010, Owen DeLong wrote: There are advantages to being able to use 16 bits to build various forms of hierarchical topology on a dynamic basis within a SOHO environment. If we reduce that to 8 bits, we will block innovations that

Re: Definitive Guide to IPv6 adoption

2010-10-19 Thread Jack Bates
On 10/19/2010 11:53 AM, Schiller, Heather A (HeatherSkanks) wrote: HS: Where customers = spammers? The only folks I have seen ask to do 'address rotation' have either been spammers or copyright monitoring services. I have never seen a request for 'address rotation' to protect a

Re: Definitive Guide to IPv6 adoption

2010-10-19 Thread Owen DeLong
On Oct 19, 2010, at 7:09 AM, Jack Bates wrote: On 10/19/2010 4:29 AM, Owen DeLong wrote: No... ARIN hands out a MINIMUM /32. A medium sized ISP should be asking for larger. ME: I really need larger space ARIN: We don't see how you can justify it, and we hardly ever give larger than

Re: Only 5x IPv4 /8 remaining at IANA

2010-10-19 Thread Franck Martin
No, no Putting your servers on IPv6 is a major task. Load balancers, proprietary code, log analysis, database records... all that needs to be reviewed to see if it is compatible with IPv6 (and a few equipments need recent upgrades if even they can do IPv6 today). Putting your client

Re: Definitive Guide to IPv6 adoption

2010-10-19 Thread Jack Bates
On 10/19/2010 1:21 PM, Owen DeLong wrote: When did you ask? If it was more than 6 months ago, then, I would suggest asking again. If it was less than 6 months ago, can you send me any or all of the correspondence so I can address it with Leslie and try and get whatever training issues remain

Re: Only 5x IPv4 /8 remaining at IANA

2010-10-19 Thread Owen DeLong
On Oct 19, 2010, at 11:30 AM, Franck Martin wrote: No, no Putting your servers on IPv6 is a major task. Load balancers, proprietary code, log analysis, database records... all that needs to be reviewed to see if it is compatible with IPv6 (and a few equipments need recent upgrades if

Re: Only 5x IPv4 /8 remaining at IANA

2010-10-19 Thread Zaid Ali
If you run Cisco ACE load balancers and start with your web server farm I can assure you that you will be stuck because ACE loaad balancers do not support v6 and don't plan to until mid next year and not without a new card/cost. If you run ACE in non routed mode then you a doubly stuck because you

Re: Only 5x IPv4 /8 remaining at IANA

2010-10-19 Thread Jack Bates
On 10/19/2010 2:27 PM, Zaid Ali wrote: If you run Cisco ACE load balancers and start with your web server farm I can assure you that you will be stuck because ACE loaad balancers do not That's not the only product with issues. As previously discussed on list, there's also issues with DR

Re: Pica8 - Open Source Cloud Switch

2010-10-19 Thread Heath Jones
We are starting to distribute Pica8 Open Source Cloud Switches : http://www.pica8.com/ Seeing as you claim they are opensource, could you please point to the documentation of the hardware? Specifically, I am looking for information regarding the FPGA/ASIC's used for forwarding circuit

Re: Pica8 - Open Source Cloud Switch

2010-10-19 Thread Heath Jones
We have dedicated servers.  You get a 10 GHz 24-core CPU with 1TB of RAM.  That's pretty clear and familiar to server geeks. Is that 10 as in Ten?

Re: Only 5x IPv4 /8 remaining at IANA

2010-10-19 Thread Kevin Stange
On 10/19/2010 10:15 AM, John van Oppen wrote: I would say for most of our customers, especially in the hosting space, a class C is a /24, they just don't know networking at all and build their hosting lans using /24s for each vlan. Very few of the requests that we get are submitted using

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Re: Only 5x IPv4 /8 remaining at IANA

2010-10-19 Thread Jens Link
valdis.kletni...@vt.edu writes: You are going to kill about 90% of all net-/sysadmins? Do you *really* want somebody working on your network that gets confused by a reference to 213/8 because it's in Class-C space? Don't get me wrong. I like the idea. Especially after the discussion I had

Re: Pica8 - Open Source Cloud Switch

2010-10-19 Thread Joe Greco
We have dedicated servers. ?You get a 10 GHz 24-core CPU with 1TB of RAM. ?That's pretty clear and familiar to server geeks. Is that 10 as in Ten? Yes. It's not meant to be quite real, it's meant as an example that any server geek ought to be able to figure out what sort of power that

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Re: Only 5x IPv4 /8 remaining at IANA

2010-10-19 Thread Mark Andrews
In message c8e33f22.6369d%z...@zaidali.com, Zaid Ali writes: If you run Cisco ACE load balancers and start with your web server farm I can assure you that you will be stuck because ACE loaad balancers do not support v6 and don't plan to until mid next year and not without a new card/cost. So

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Re: Only 5x IPv4 /8 remaining at IANA

2010-10-19 Thread Zaid Ali
On 10/19/10 2:37 PM, Mark Andrews ma...@isc.org wrote: So stick a router in parallel and just route IPv6 over it. So stick in a IPv6-IPv4 proxy and send that traffic through the load balancer. Nah considering v6 traffic is small I have a simpler solution, I prefer to set up a temporary web

Re: Only 5x IPv4 /8 remaining at IANA

2010-10-19 Thread Mark Andrews
In message c8e36161.636f0%z...@zaidali.com, Zaid Ali writes: On 10/19/10 2:37 PM, Mark Andrews ma...@isc.org wrote: So stick a router in parallel and just route IPv6 over it. So stick in a IPv6-IPv4 proxy and send that traffic through the load balancer. Nah considering v6 traffic

Re: Only 5x IPv4 /8 remaining at IANA

2010-10-19 Thread Zaid Ali
On 10/19/10 3:58 PM, Mark Andrews ma...@isc.org wrote: Adding is seperate IPv6 server is a work around and runs the risk of being overloaded. And what a wonderful problem to have! You can show a CFO a nice cacti graph of IPv6 growth so you can justify him/her to sign off on IPv6 expenses. A

Re: Only 5x IPv4 /8 remaining at IANA

2010-10-19 Thread Matthew Petach
On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 4:25 PM, Zaid Ali z...@zaidali.com wrote: On 10/19/10 3:58 PM, Mark Andrews ma...@isc.org wrote: Adding is seperate IPv6 server is a work around and runs the risk of being overloaded. And what a wonderful problem to have! You can show a CFO a nice cacti graph of IPv6

Re: Only 5x IPv4 /8 remaining at IANA

2010-10-19 Thread Mark Smith
On Tue, 19 Oct 2010 16:25:12 -0700 Zaid Ali z...@zaidali.com wrote: On 10/19/10 3:58 PM, Mark Andrews ma...@isc.org wrote: Adding is seperate IPv6 server is a work around and runs the risk of being overloaded. And what a wonderful problem to have! You can show a CFO a nice cacti graph

Re: Only 5x IPv4 /8 remaining at IANA

2010-10-19 Thread Julien Goodwin
On 20/10/10 01:52, Matthew Walster wrote: No, and neither can anyone else... What's more is that they'll not use .0, .255, .1 (because apparently only routers are supposed to use that), .254 (who knows...) There's actually a good reason for that. MS Windows (at least 2k3 server) will simply

Re: Only 5x IPv4 /8 remaining at IANA

2010-10-19 Thread Cameron Byrne
On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 5:05 PM, Mark Smith na...@85d5b20a518b8f6864949bd940457dc124746ddc.nosense.org wrote: On Tue, 19 Oct 2010 16:25:12 -0700 Zaid Ali z...@zaidali.com wrote: On 10/19/10 3:58 PM, Mark Andrews ma...@isc.org wrote: Adding is seperate IPv6 server is a work around and runs

Re: Only 5x IPv4 /8 remaining at IANA

2010-10-19 Thread Mark Smith
On Mon, 18 Oct 2010 11:41:09 -0700 George Bonser gbon...@seven.com wrote: You are confusing SI with Packet Filters. The technologies are different and it is, also, important to understand this distinction as well. I don't think I am confusing the two. I am saying that I have seen

RE: Enterprise DNS providers

2010-10-19 Thread Ryan Finnesey
I do not know much about their sales tactics but I can say I used them years ago for a project and had no technical problems. Cheers Ryan -Original Message- From: seph [mailto:s...@directionless.org] Sent: Monday, October 18, 2010 12:03 PM To: Subject: Re: Enterprise DNS providers I

RE: Enterprise DNS providers

2010-10-19 Thread Ryan Finnesey
Maybe this is a new business opportunity. What do Enterprise DNS providers change? Cheers Ryan -Original Message- From: Brandon Galbraith [mailto:brandon.galbra...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, October 18, 2010 1:30 PM To: seph Cc: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: Enterprise DNS providers

Re: Only 5x IPv4 /8 remaining at IANA

2010-10-19 Thread Joel Jaeggli
On 10/19/10 9:24 PM, Mark Smith wrote: On Tue, 19 Oct 2010 22:24:02 +0200 Jens Link li...@quux.de wrote: valdis.kletni...@vt.edu writes: You are going to kill about 90% of all net-/sysadmins? Do you *really* want somebody working on your network that gets confused by a reference to

Re: Only 5x IPv4 ... WRONG! :)

2010-10-19 Thread bmanning
On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 10:01:48PM -0700, Joel Jaeggli wrote: Of course ifconfig will also happily take whatever mask you feed it in your choice of notation so it's not exactly a bronze age tool. first - IPv6 isn't 5x IPv4, its only 4x... :) and the idea f bronze-age