Re: IPv6 gateway, was: Re: IPv6 foot-dragging

2011-05-17 Thread Erik Muller
On Mon, 16 May 2011, Todd Lyons wrote: Double check the kernel version you have. IIRC kernels before 2.6.20 didn't have the ability to do RELATED,ESTABLISHED in ipv6. This hit me on a CentOS box that I was using as a gateway. I am unaware if there is a version of their 2.6.18 that has the

Re: IPv6 gateway, was: Re: IPv6 foot-dragging

2011-05-16 Thread Todd Lyons
On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 2:32 PM, Jeroen van Aart jer...@mompl.net wrote: Something like: -I FORWARD -j DROP -I FORWARD -s 2001:db8::/64 -j ACCEPT -I FORWARD -m state --state RELATED,ESTABLISHED -j ACCEPT Double check the kernel version you have. IIRC kernels before 2.6.20 didn't have the

Re: IPv6 foot-dragging

2011-05-13 Thread Iljitsch van Beijnum
On 13 mei 2011, at 2:39, Jimmy Hess wrote: if the user starts obtaining multiple non-aggregable /48s from different sources, or obtains an additional PI allocation later, but keeps using the original /48. Simple: make a rule that you don't get more than one PI block, and if you want a

Re: IPv6 foot-dragging

2011-05-13 Thread Iljitsch van Beijnum
On 13 mei 2011, at 18:42, Matthew Petach wrote: The current RIR practice to reserve a /44 when a /44 is given out is a very bad one. It assures unfilterability, because now you have random sizes from /44 to /48 in the parts of the address space used for PI. And if say, 64k /48s are given

IPv6 gateway, was: Re: IPv6 foot-dragging

2011-05-13 Thread Jeroen van Aart
Thanks all for the helpful suggestions. It looks like I solved the problem by adjusting my forward chain. I have a the local network on eth0 and the external network on eth1 and my forward chain looked like: -I FORWARD -i eth0 -o eth1 -s 2001:db8::/64 -j ACCEPT -I FORWARD -i eth1 -o eth0 -d

Re: IPv6 foot-dragging

2011-05-13 Thread Jeroen van Aart
Joe Loiacono wrote: Jeroen Massar jer...@unfix.org wrote on 05/12/2011 09:19:21 AM: On 2011-May-12 15:14, Joe Loiacono wrote: Anyone know roughly the current default-free routing table size for IPv6? http://www.sixxs.net/tools/grh/status/ Awesome web-site. The world of IPv6 routing on one

Re: IPv6 gateway, was: Re: IPv6 foot-dragging

2011-05-13 Thread Jeroen van Aart
Jeroen van Aart wrote: Thanks all for the helpful suggestions. Obviously I need to do a better job using documentation IPv6 consistently, so ignore any inconsistencies in that regard. -- http://goldmark.org/jeff/stupid-disclaimers/ http://linuxmafia.com/~rick/faq/plural-of-virus.html

Re: IPv6 gateway, was: Re: IPv6 foot-dragging

2011-05-13 Thread Jeroen van Aart
Jeroen van Aart wrote: -I FORWARD -i eth0 -s 2001:db8::/64 -j ACCEPT -I FORWARD -i eth1 -d 2001:db8::/64 -j ACCEPT Just in case if anyone'd be using it as an example. It's a good idea to make your rules more restrictive. Something like: -I FORWARD -j DROP -I FORWARD -s 2001:db8::/64 -j

Re: IPv6 gateway, was: Re: IPv6 foot-dragging

2011-05-13 Thread Owen DeLong
On May 13, 2011, at 2:32 PM, Jeroen van Aart wrote: Jeroen van Aart wrote: -I FORWARD -i eth0 -s 2001:db8::/64 -j ACCEPT -I FORWARD -i eth1 -d 2001:db8::/64 -j ACCEPT Just in case if anyone'd be using it as an example. It's a good idea to make your rules more restrictive. Something

Re: IPv6 gateway, was: Re: IPv6 foot-dragging

2011-05-13 Thread Jeroen van Aart
Owen DeLong wrote: On May 13, 2011, at 2:32 PM, Jeroen van Aart wrote: -I FORWARD -j DROP -I FORWARD -s 2001:db8::/64 -j ACCEPT -I FORWARD -m state --state RELATED,ESTABLISHED -j ACCEPT I thought iptables processed rules in order until it found a match. In such a case, wouldn't you want

Re: IPv6 gateway, was: Re: IPv6 foot-dragging

2011-05-13 Thread Owen DeLong
On May 13, 2011, at 3:33 PM, Jeroen van Aart wrote: Owen DeLong wrote: On May 13, 2011, at 2:32 PM, Jeroen van Aart wrote: -I FORWARD -j DROP -I FORWARD -s 2001:db8::/64 -j ACCEPT -I FORWARD -m state --state RELATED,ESTABLISHED -j ACCEPT I thought iptables processed rules in order

Re: IPv6 foot-dragging

2011-05-12 Thread Sasa Ristic
On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 05:14, ML m...@kenweb.org wrote: On 5/11/2011 11:03 AM, ja...@jamesstewartsmith.com wrote: I have had similar problems with our providers, and these are tier 1 companies that should have already been full deployed.  These are also some of the more expensive providers

Re: IPv6 foot-dragging

2011-05-12 Thread Owen DeLong
On May 11, 2011, at 8:14 PM, ML wrote: On 5/11/2011 11:03 AM, ja...@jamesstewartsmith.com wrote: I have had similar problems with our providers, and these are tier 1 companies that should have already been full deployed. These are also some of the more expensive providers on a per Mb

RE: IPv6 foot-dragging

2011-05-12 Thread Anthony Francis - Handy Networks LLC
I can confirm full IPV6 connectivity from HE. -Original Message- From: Owen DeLong [mailto:o...@delong.com] Sent: Thursday, May 12, 2011 4:07 AM To: m...@kenweb.org Cc: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: IPv6 foot-dragging On May 11, 2011, at 8:14 PM, ML wrote: On 5/11/2011 11:03 AM, ja

Re: IPv6 foot-dragging

2011-05-12 Thread Iljitsch van Beijnum
On 12 mei 2011, at 12:06, Owen DeLong wrote: IPv6 peering is somewhat different from IPv4. How is it different?

Re: IPv6 foot-dragging

2011-05-12 Thread Bernhard Schmidt
Anthony Francis - Handy Networks LLC anth...@handynetworks.com wrote: I can confirm full IPV6 connectivity from HE. How can you confirm that when HE just admitted to be lacking IPv6 routes from Cogent and a couple of other players? Bernhard

Re: IPv6 foot-dragging

2011-05-12 Thread Joe Loiacono
Bernhard Schmidt be...@birkenwald.de wrote on 05/12/2011 06:27:38 AM: Anthony Francis - Handy Networks LLC anth...@handynetworks.com wrote: I can confirm full IPV6 connectivity from HE. How can you confirm that when HE just admitted to be lacking IPv6 routes from Cogent and a couple of

Re: IPv6 foot-dragging

2011-05-12 Thread Jeroen Massar
On 2011-May-12 15:14, Joe Loiacono wrote: Bernhard Schmidt be...@birkenwald.de wrote on 05/12/2011 06:27:38 AM: Anthony Francis - Handy Networks LLC anth...@handynetworks.com wrote: I can confirm full IPV6 connectivity from HE. How can you confirm that when HE just admitted to be lacking

Re: IPv6 foot-dragging

2011-05-12 Thread Bernhard Schmidt
Hi, Bernhard Schmidt be...@birkenwald.de wrote on 05/12/2011 06:27:38 AM: Anthony Francis - Handy Networks LLC anth...@handynetworks.com wrote: I can confirm full IPV6 connectivity from HE. How can you confirm that when HE just admitted to be lacking IPv6 routes from Cogent and a couple

Re: IPv6 foot-dragging

2011-05-12 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
On Thu, 12 May 2011, Jeroen Massar wrote: As you can see, some folks seem to carry HALF of the table EXTRA than they need let alone that poor ISP which is carrying almost 2/3s more, I don't have time to check into it, but I wonder how much junk is in there A lot. I see /48 breakouts

Re: IPv6 foot-dragging

2011-05-12 Thread Joe Loiacono
Jeroen Massar jer...@unfix.org wrote on 05/12/2011 09:19:21 AM: On 2011-May-12 15:14, Joe Loiacono wrote: Anyone know roughly the current default-free routing table size for IPv6? http://www.sixxs.net/tools/grh/status/ Awesome web-site. The world of IPv6 routing on one page. 3668

RE: IPv6 foot-dragging

2011-05-12 Thread George Bonser
A lot. I see /48 breakouts from /32 PA blocks for instance, announced by a customer AS of the PA holder AS. -- Mikael Abrahamssonemail: swm...@swm.pp.se Which is kinda sad. If those customer AS are multihomed or plan to be multihomed, they can get their own allocation out of PI space.

Re: IPv6 foot-dragging

2011-05-12 Thread Joel Maslak
Who sees the most AS's?

Re: IPv6 foot-dragging

2011-05-12 Thread Martin Millnert
George, On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 11:41 AM, George Bonser gbon...@seven.com wrote: A lot. I see /48 breakouts from /32 PA blocks for instance, announced by a customer AS of the PA holder AS. -- Mikael Abrahamsson    email: swm...@swm.pp.se Which is kinda sad. It's reality. If those

RE: IPv6 foot-dragging

2011-05-12 Thread George Bonser
In the RIPE region, being multihomed or planning to be it is not a sufficient condition for getting a PI prefix. And even if it was, the hit on DFZ is the same as from getting allocation from LIR. Even if they get their own /32, the hit would be the same (modulo individual FIB/RIB

Re: IPv6 foot-dragging

2011-05-12 Thread Owen DeLong
On May 12, 2011, at 3:49 PM, George Bonser wrote: In the RIPE region, being multihomed or planning to be it is not a sufficient condition for getting a PI prefix. And even if it was, the hit on DFZ is the same as from getting allocation from LIR. Even if they get their own /32, the hit

Re: IPv6 foot-dragging

2011-05-12 Thread Jimmy Hess
On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 5:49 PM, George Bonser gbon...@seven.com wrote: Possibly the hit might be the same, but possibly not.  An organization that requires a second /48 from their upstream might get one that can't be aggregated with the previous one.  It is my understanding that ARIN A very

Re: IPv6 foot-dragging

2011-05-12 Thread Jeff Wheeler
On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 8:39 PM, Jimmy Hess mysi...@gmail.com wrote: A very important distinction. The _immediate_  hit to the DFZ might be the same as obtaining PI V6 space, but the _long term_ hit to the DFZ might be much greater; The real issue is that there are many /48 announcements today

Re: IPv6 foot-dragging

2011-05-12 Thread Jeroen van Aart
Anthony Francis - Handy Networks LLC wrote: I can confirm full IPV6 connectivity from HE. I'm using the HE tunnel also and it works fine. But I have a bit of difficulty getting the right ip6tables (and the single iptables) rules to work so that my one server that tunnels ipv6 can serve as a

Re: IPv6 foot-dragging

2011-05-11 Thread Iljitsch van Beijnum
On 11 mei 2011, at 16:39, William Astle wrote: I think the above two points illustrate precisely why so many networks in North America simply cannot deploy IPv6 whether they want to or not. We simply cannot obtain IPv6 transit from our upstreams. It's just not available. And the old line

Re: IPv6 foot-dragging

2011-05-11 Thread Jeroen Massar
On 2011-May-11 16:39, William Astle wrote: [..] I think the above two points illustrate precisely why so many networks in North America simply cannot deploy IPv6 whether they want to or not. We simply cannot obtain IPv6 transit from our upstreams. It's just not available. And the old line

Re: IPv6 foot-dragging

2011-05-11 Thread Jima
On 05/11/2011 09:50 AM, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote: On 11 mei 2011, at 16:39, William Astle wrote: I think the above two points illustrate precisely why so many networks in North America simply cannot deploy IPv6 whether they want to or not. We simply cannot obtain IPv6 transit from our

Re: IPv6 foot-dragging

2011-05-11 Thread james
I have had similar problems with our providers, and these are tier 1 companies that should have already been full deployed. These are also some of the more expensive providers on a per Mb basis. The one provider that was full IPv6 ready was Cogent. HE is also IPv6 (although we don't use them

Re: IPv6 foot-dragging

2011-05-11 Thread Mike Tancsa
On 5/11/2011 11:03 AM, ja...@jamesstewartsmith.com wrote: I have had similar problems with our providers, and these are tier 1 companies that should have already been full deployed. These are also some of the more expensive providers on a per Mb basis. The one provider that was full IPv6

Re: IPv6 foot-dragging

2011-05-11 Thread William Astle
On 2011-05-11 09:10, Mike Tancsa wrote: On 5/11/2011 11:03 AM, ja...@jamesstewartsmith.com wrote: I have had similar problems with our providers, and these are tier 1 companies that should have already been full deployed. These are also some of the more expensive providers on a per Mb

RE: IPv6 foot-dragging

2011-05-11 Thread George Bonser
Apparently the need for IPv6 isn't yet high enough to consider adding a transit provider. I've seen enough press releases from NTT and HE to know there's at least two that can do this out there. I believe the major holdup at this point is lack of v6 eyeballs. End user CPE, particularly

Re: IPv6 foot-dragging

2011-05-11 Thread Iljitsch van Beijnum
On 11 mei 2011, at 19:01, George Bonser wrote: A couple of things you can do to check. First of all look for requests to your DNS servers for records and note where those are coming from. Firefox has for a long time done both A and lookups even if the system doesn't have IPv6. I

Re: IPv6 foot-dragging

2011-05-11 Thread Jared Mauch
On May 11, 2011, at 1:12 PM, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote: On 11 mei 2011, at 19:01, George Bonser wrote: A couple of things you can do to check. First of all look for requests to your DNS servers for records and note where those are coming from. Firefox has for a long time done

Re: IPv6 foot-dragging

2011-05-11 Thread Tore Anderson
* Iljitsch van Beijnum Firefox has for a long time done both A and lookups even if the system doesn't have IPv6. They fixed that in version 4.0, by calling getaddrinfo() with the AI_ADDRCONFIG flag (like most other browsers do). https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=614526 --

RE: IPv6 foot-dragging

2011-05-11 Thread George Bonser
Now you're counting DNS servers. Because the provisioning of IPv6 DNS addresses has been such a mess and still is problematic, many dual stack systems do this over IPv4. And the DNS servers they talk to may be IPv4-only, or IPv4-only users may talk to dual stack DNS servers. Which is why I

Re: IPv6 foot-dragging

2011-05-11 Thread Iljitsch van Beijnum
On 11 mei 2011, at 19:32, George Bonser wrote: If the results of world IPv6 day are as we expect and only 0.1 - 0.2 % or less of all people have problems, I think the best way forward would be to have a second world IPv6 day where we again enable IPv6 industry- wide but this time we don't

Re: IPv6 foot-dragging

2011-05-11 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Wed, 11 May 2011 10:32:54 PDT, George Bonser said: 0.1% of users is a HUGE number if you have 1,000,000 subscribers. Are you prepared to field 1,000 helpdesk calls or lose 1,000 customers? Now imagine 100,000,000 subscribers. Are you ready for 10,000 support calls or the loss of 10,000

Re: IPv6 foot-dragging

2011-05-11 Thread Doug Barton
On 05/11/2011 11:21, valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: Unless you have a captive audience for customers, you probably have a churn rate higher than 0.1%*anyhow*. This argument has already been refuted many times. Let's assume that you're right about the churn rate. The issue is enterprises not

Re: IPv6 foot-dragging

2011-05-11 Thread Joel Jaeggli
On 5/11/11 11:39 AM, George Bonser wrote: It depends. There are other things to take into account. If you increase the time it takes a mobile device to complete a transaction by only a couple of seconds, if you multiply those couple of seconds by all of the users in a large metro area, you

RE: IPv6 foot-dragging

2011-05-11 Thread George Bonser
So what's the alternative? Never change anything? Of course not. But the best course forward is going to be different for different folks. What might work best for me might not (probably WILL not) work best for everyone else. One has to look at their situation and plan the best path for their

Re: IPv6 foot-dragging

2011-05-11 Thread nick hatch
On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 11:39 AM, George Bonser gbon...@seven.com wrote: There are other things to take into account. If you increase the time it takes a mobile device to complete a transaction by only a couple of seconds, if you multiply those couple of seconds by all of the users in a

RE: IPv6 foot-dragging

2011-05-11 Thread George Bonser
I agree that seconds sometimes matters, but the latency of a transaction doesn't have a linear relationship with radio or battery usage on a mobile device. Because of the timers involved in the state transitions (eg CELL_FACH - CELL_DCH), a few seconds of extra latency often is

Re: IPv6 foot-dragging

2011-05-11 Thread Iljitsch van Beijnum
On 11 mei 2011, at 20:39, George Bonser wrote: So what's the alternative? Never change anything? Of course not. But the best course forward is going to be different for different folks. What might work best for me might not (probably WILL not) work best for everyone else. One has to look

Re: IPv6 foot-dragging

2011-05-11 Thread ML
On 5/11/2011 11:03 AM, ja...@jamesstewartsmith.com wrote: I have had similar problems with our providers, and these are tier 1 companies that should have already been full deployed. These are also some of the more expensive providers on a per Mb basis. The one provider that was full IPv6