Re: Another driver for v6?

2008-10-30 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
On Wed, 29 Oct 2008, David W. Hankins wrote: On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 06:32:31PM -0400, Steven King wrote: Does anyone see any benefits to beginning a small deployment of IPv6 now even if its just for internal usage? It is almost lunacy to deploy IPv6 in a customer-facing sense (note for

Re: Peering - Benefits?

2008-10-30 Thread Matthew Moyle-Croft
Joe Provo wrote: A couple to add: - failure scoping: issues on a remote network can be better isolated from the rest of your traffic (or completely if it is the peer). Related to this is ability to contact the right people more quickly. If you've got a problem with/on someone's

RE: Another driver for v6?

2008-10-30 Thread michael.dillon
Does anyone see any benefits to beginning a small deployment of IPv6 now even if its just for internal usage? According to http://www.getipv6.info/index.php/First_Steps_for_ISPs you should deploy some IPv6 transition technology to make sure that your network does not cause problems for the

Re: Another driver for v6?

2008-10-30 Thread Matthew Ford
On 30/10/08 07:10, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote: On Wed, 29 Oct 2008, David W. Hankins wrote: On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 06:32:31PM -0400, Steven King wrote: Does anyone see any benefits to beginning a small deployment of IPv6 now even if its just for internal usage? It is almost lunacy to deploy

RE: Another driver for v6?

2008-10-30 Thread michael.dillon
It is almost lunacy to deploy IPv6 in a customer-facing sense (note for example Google's choice to put its on a separate FQDN). If you're going to use emotionally charged language then don't shoot yourself in the foot by using such an illogical and contrary example. Google is a very

Re: Another driver for v6?

2008-10-30 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
On Thu, 30 Oct 2008, Matthew Ford wrote: Your stats (which are very interesting btw, thanks for doing the work) suggest that the number of clients that would make use of the record for a dual-stack service is about the same as the number of clients that would fail in the event that both

RE: Peering - Benefits?

2008-10-30 Thread Paul Stewart
Thanks - no I understand that... We have multiple transit providers today and are already present on a couple of smaller peering exchanges with an open peering policy... our experience with them has been very positive. The redundancy perspective is that you now have more paths to the same AS -

Re: Peering - Benefits?

2008-10-30 Thread Will Hargrave
HRH Sven Olaf Prinz von CyberBunker-Kamphuis MP wrote: as for peering agreements, just implement an open peering policy (doesn't nessesarily have to take place over an ix, also applies to pieces of ethernet running from your network to others). those basically are contracts that force

Re: Peering - Benefits?

2008-10-30 Thread Andy Davidson
On 30 Oct 2008, at 13:03, HRH Sven Olaf Prinz von CyberBunker-Kamphuis MP wrote: internet exchanges are not per-se redundant Those networks who *choose* connect to peers via a single fabric, in a single location, will suffer a similar fate to those networks who single home to

Re: Peering - Benefits?

2008-10-30 Thread Adam Armstrong
Sure, but we're talking about settlement-free peering. He's only expecting to be able to reach his peer's subnets and perhaps those of his peer's customers. If he peers with ASx in two locations, he does have redundant connections to ASx's tiny corner of the internet. adam. But if that AS

Re: Peering - Benefits?

2008-10-30 Thread Will Hargrave
Paul Stewart wrote: We have multiple transit providers today and are already present on a couple of smaller peering exchanges with an open peering policy... our experience with them has been very positive. As an IX operator I'm glad to hear it :-) The redundancy perspective is that you now

Re: Peering - Benefits?

2008-10-30 Thread Adam Armstrong
HRH Sven Olaf Prinz von CyberBunker-Kamphuis MP wrote: internet exchanges are not per-se redundant they basically are a switch which actually, because of the many connected parties, most of which do not have enough PAID transit to cover any outages on it, causes more problems than they are good

Re: Peering - Benefits?

2008-10-30 Thread Pierfrancesco Caci
:- HRH == HRH Sven Olaf Prinz von CyberBunker-Kamphuis MP [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: internet exchanges are not per-se redundant depends on your concept of redundancy. they basically are a switch which actually, because of the many connected parties, most of which do not

Re: Peering - Benefits?

2008-10-30 Thread Todd Underwood
On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 01:03:55PM +, HRH Sven Olaf Prinz von CyberBunker-Kamphuis MP wrote: (the amsix with their many outages and connected parties that rely primarliy on it's functionality is a prime example here) internet exchanges usually are some sort of hobby computer club, you

Re: Another driver for v6?

2008-10-30 Thread Andy Davidson
On 30 Oct 2008, at 15:47, David W. Hankins wrote: If someone can't reach the hypothetical A/ www.google.com RRset, you've just increased your support costs. My network is slow. Are you using IPv4 or IPv6? Netscape. Do you think that industry should be working to some kind of well

RE: Another driver for v6?

2008-10-30 Thread michael.dillon
In the same way that in the UK, appliance manufacturers have been educating people about the analogue terrestrial TV switchoff by 2012, do you think that we should be advocating a 'internet PLUS day' some time in (date plucked from the air) 2014 ? Actually, the Internet PLUS day should be

Re: Peering - Benefits?

2008-10-30 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Oct 30, 2008, at 10:49 AM, Todd Underwood wrote: so far there have been some good values articulated and there may be more (reach, latency, diversity of path, diversity of capacity, control, flexibility, options, price negotation) and some additional costs have been mentioned (capex for

Re: Another driver for v6?

2008-10-30 Thread Michael Thomas
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think that technical people underestimate the impact that this type of an event can provide. While we want to avoid being forced into a flag-day switchover, that does not mean that a flag day is all bad. We could have the Internet PLUS flag day in order to raise

Re: Another driver for v6?

2008-10-30 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
On Thu, 30 Oct 2008, David W. Hankins wrote: I don't know how to ask this question without sounding mean, but did the graph spike out of zero, or did you start collecting two months ago? It spiked out of zero as we put up our 6to4 and teredo relays approx two months ago. I don't know where

Re: Another driver for v6?

2008-10-30 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Thu, 30 Oct 2008 15:55:01 -, Andy Davidson said: In the same way that in the UK, appliance manufacturers have been educating people about the analogue terrestrial TV switchoff by 2012, Is your side of the pond any more ready than our side is for next Febuary's drop-dead cutoff?

Re: Peering - Benefits?

2008-10-30 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Oct 30, 2008, at 12:38 PM, Paul Stewart wrote: Thanks for playing devil's advocate... I am truly trying to cover both sides of the discussion - technically it's what we want for sure but the top of the food chain looks beyond just what a technical team wants to do as I'm sure we're all

RE: Peering - Benefits?

2008-10-30 Thread Paul Stewart
Absolutely... I can see us dropping at least one of the transit providers over time - with current growth we might end up keeping all of them to meet needs though. Just depends on how fast traffic moves from transit to peering versus how quickly our overall requirements grow (pretty dramatic

Sprint / Cogent

2008-10-30 Thread Joe Greco
Looks like maybe Sprint and Cogent are experiencing communications difficulties in the DC (and probably other) areas. Theories include a potential depeering. ... JG -- Joe Greco - sol.net Network Services - Milwaukee, WI - http://www.sol.net We call it the 'one bite at the apple' rule. Give me

Re: Sprint / Cogent

2008-10-30 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Oct 30, 2008, at 6:08 PM, Joe Greco wrote: Looks like maybe Sprint and Cogent are experiencing communications difficulties in the DC (and probably other) areas. Theories include a potential depeering. Not a theory. -- TTFN, patrick

Re: Sprint / Cogent

2008-10-30 Thread Marshall Eubanks
On Oct 30, 2008, at 6:08 PM, Joe Greco wrote: Looks like maybe Sprint and Cogent are experiencing communications difficulties in the DC (and probably other) areas. Theories include a potential depeering. I am seeing issues Cogent - Sprint at Tyco Road, Tysons Corner VA. arin_whois

Re: Sprint / Cogent

2008-10-30 Thread Michal Krsek
Looks like maybe Sprint and Cogent are experiencing communications difficulties in the DC (and probably other) areas. Theories include a potential depeering. I am seeing issues Cogent - Sprint at Tyco Road, Tysons Corner VA. .. ... .. show ip bgp 206.159.101.241 % Network not in

Depeering as an IPv6 driver (was: Re: Sprint / Cogent)

2008-10-30 Thread Deepak Jain
I wonder if judicious use of 6to4 and Teredo would allow an IPv6 (single homed) user to access now missing parts of the Internet. Me thinks, yes. Deepak Joe Greco wrote: Looks like maybe Sprint and Cogent are experiencing communications difficulties in the DC (and probably other) areas.

Re: Depeering as an IPv6 driver (was: Re: Sprint / Cogent)

2008-10-30 Thread Jared Mauch
On Oct 30, 2008, at 6:55 PM, Deepak Jain wrote: I wonder if judicious use of 6to4 and Teredo would allow an IPv6 (single homed) user to access now missing parts of the Internet. Me thinks, yes. So would some CGN (Carrier Grade Nat anyone) too. Last I knew Cogent wasn't

Re: Depeering as an IPv6 driver (was: Re: Sprint / Cogent)

2008-10-30 Thread Brandon Galbraith
On 10/30/08, Jared Mauch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Oct 30, 2008, at 6:55 PM, Deepak Jain wrote: I wonder if judicious use of 6to4 and Teredo would allow an IPv6 (single homed) user to access now missing parts of the Internet. Me thinks, yes. So would some CGN (Carrier Grade Nat

Re: Peering - Benefits?

2008-10-30 Thread vijay gill
This is probably going to be a somewhat unpopular opinion, mostly because people cannot figure out their COGS. If you can get transit for cheaper than your COGS, you are better off buying transit and not peering. There are some small arguments to be made for latency and 'cheap/free' peering if

Re: Depeering as an IPv6 driver

2008-10-30 Thread Jack Bates
Brandon Galbraith wrote: Not that I know of. We tried to get IPv6 transit from Cogent several months ago (we already have IPv4 transit), and were told it's not available yet. What a shame. It's extremely miserable, but Sprint has a 6to4 at least. No clue what they have beyond that. It's been

Re: Sprint / Cogent

2008-10-30 Thread Paul Fleming
http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/sprint-nextel-severs-its-internet-connection-to-cogent-communications,603138.shtml Brandon Galbraith wrote: On 10/30/08, Patrick W. Gilmore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Oct 30, 2008, at 6:08 PM, Joe Greco wrote: Looks like maybe Sprint and Cogent

Re: Sprint / Cogent

2008-10-30 Thread Brandon Galbraith
On 10/30/08, Paul Fleming [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/sprint-nextel-severs-its-internet-connection-to-cogent-communications,603138.shtml The most interesting part of the press release to me is: In the over 1300 on-net locations worldwide where Cogent

Re: Peering - Benefits?

2008-10-30 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Oct 30, 2008, at 10:19 PM, vijay gill wrote: This is probably going to be a somewhat unpopular opinion, mostly because people cannot figure out their COGS. If you can get transit for cheaper than your COGS, you are better off buying transit and not peering. There are some small arguments to

Re: Peering - Benefits?

2008-10-30 Thread vijay gill
On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 9:41 PM, Patrick W. Gilmore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Oct 30, 2008, at 10:19 PM, vijay gill wrote: This is probably going to be a somewhat unpopular opinion, mostly because people cannot figure out their COGS. If you can get transit for cheaper than your COGS, you

Re: Peering - Benefits?

2008-10-30 Thread Randy Bush
The point is if you are building out specifically to peer, the effort is not worth it if you are not operating at scale, ^ probably i can think of situations where there may be very low cost to build-out to peer. but they are unusual. and if you are operating at scale, you are not going

Re: Peering - Benefits?

2008-10-30 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Oct 31, 2008, at 1:05 AM, vijay gill wrote: On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 9:41 PM, Patrick W. Gilmore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Oct 30, 2008, at 10:19 PM, vijay gill wrote: This is probably going to be a somewhat unpopular opinion, mostly because people cannot figure out their COGS. If you

Re: Peering - Benefits?

2008-10-30 Thread vijay gill
On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 10:13 PM, Patrick W. Gilmore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Oct 31, 2008, at 1:05 AM, vijay gill wrote: On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 9:41 PM, Patrick W. Gilmore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Oct 30, 2008, at 10:19 PM, vijay gill wrote: This is probably going to be a somewhat