RE: IPv6 Ignorance

2012-10-07 Thread Tomas L. Byrnes
: George Herbert [mailto:george.herb...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, September 28, 2012 11:17 PM To: John R. Levine; George Herbert Cc: Tomas L. Byrnes; nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: IPv6 Ignorance My customer the Dark Matter local galaxy group beg to disagree; just because you cannot see them does

Re: IPv6 Ignorance

2012-10-02 Thread Bruce H McIntosh
On Sat, 2012-09-29 at 16:53 +1000, Jason Leschnik wrote: To address everything in the Universe wouldn't you then get stuck in some kinda of loop of having to address the matter that is used by the addresses... i.e. to address everything in the Universe you need more matter than the Universe?

Re: IPv6 Ignorance

2012-09-29 Thread George Herbert
...@psg.com] Sent: Monday, September 17, 2012 8:30 PM To: John Levine Cc: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: IPv6 Ignorance In technology, not much. But I'd be pretty surprised if the laws of arithmetic were to change, or if we were to find it useful to assign IP addresses to objects smaller than

Re: IPv6 Ignorance

2012-09-29 Thread Jason Leschnik
Message- From: Randy Bush [mailto:ra...@psg.com] Sent: Monday, September 17, 2012 8:30 PM To: John Levine Cc: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: IPv6 Ignorance In technology, not much. But I'd be pretty surprised if the laws of arithmetic were to change, or if we were to find it useful

RE: IPv6 Ignorance

2012-09-28 Thread Tomas L. Byrnes
To: John Levine Cc: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: IPv6 Ignorance In technology, not much. But I'd be pretty surprised if the laws of arithmetic were to change, or if we were to find it useful to assign IP addresses to objects smaller than a single atom. we assign them /64s

RE: IPv6 Ignorance

2012-09-28 Thread John R. Levine
[mailto:ra...@psg.com] Sent: Monday, September 17, 2012 8:30 PM To: John Levine Cc: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: IPv6 Ignorance In technology, not much. But I'd be pretty surprised if the laws of arithmetic were to change, or if we were to find it useful to assign IP addresses to objects smaller than

Re: IPv6 Ignorance

2012-09-18 Thread William Herrin
On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 2:16 PM, Owen DeLong o...@delong.com wrote: We thought 32 bits was humongous in the context of a research project that would connect universities, research institutions and some military installations. In that context, 32 bits would still be humongous. Our estimation

Re: IPv6 Ignorance

2012-09-18 Thread Robert E. Seastrom
Seth Mattinen se...@rollernet.us writes: I came across these threads today; the blind ignorance towards IPv6 from some of the posters is kind of shocking. There are actually a few good points mixed in there, like the guy who observes that dual stacking is of limited utility if there are no

Re: IPv6 Ignorance

2012-09-18 Thread Owen DeLong
On Sep 17, 2012, at 23:35 , William Herrin b...@herrin.us wrote: On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 2:16 PM, Owen DeLong o...@delong.com wrote: We thought 32 bits was humongous in the context of a research project that would connect universities, research institutions and some military installations.

Re: IPv6 Ignorance

2012-09-18 Thread Steve Meuse
On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 9:21 AM, Robert E. Seastrom r...@seastrom.com wrote: What do I mean when I say it must support IPv6? I mean two things. First, full feature parity with IPv4. Everything that works under IPv4 must work under IPv6. If you have exceptions, you'd better

Re: IPv6 Ignorance

2012-09-18 Thread Jared Mauch
On Sep 18, 2012, at 10:58 AM, Steve Meuse sme...@mara.org wrote: On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 9:21 AM, Robert E. Seastrom r...@seastrom.com wrote: What do I mean when I say it must support IPv6? I mean two things. First, full feature parity with IPv4. Everything that works under

Re: IPv6 Ignorance

2012-09-18 Thread Steve Meuse
On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 11:08 AM, Jared Mauch ja...@puck.nether.net wrote: We've been doing this for years on both Juniper IOS/IOS-XR devices. Must be someone else. I may be wrong, but IOS-XR on A9K only supported v6 on bundle-ether interfaces as of 4.1.2-ish. That, of course, leads to

Re: IPv6 Ignorance

2012-09-18 Thread Jared Mauch
It was supported before there. We were using it prior to that release. You needed a smu though. I can perhaps find details if they are that important for you. Jared Mauch On Sep 18, 2012, at 11:24 AM, Steve Meuse sme...@mara.org wrote: On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 11:08 AM, Jared Mauch

Re: IPv6 Ignorance

2012-09-18 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Tue, 18 Sep 2012 02:35:43 -0400, William Herrin said: Then we need 32 bits to overlay the customer's IPv4 address for convenience within our 6RD network. Well yeah. You blow 32 bits for silly reasons, you run out of bits. Film at 11. pgpvFDJ2NdnzN.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: IPv6 Ignorance

2012-09-18 Thread Michael Thomas
On 09/18/2012 08:08 AM, Jared Mauch wrote: We've been doing this for years on both Juniper IOS/IOS-XR devices. Must be someone else. We do run into this whole feature parity thing often. The vendors seem to be challenged in this space. I suspect a significant part of it is they don't

RE: IPv6 Ignorance

2012-09-18 Thread Beeman, Davis
Orbits may not be important to this calculation, but just doing some quick head math, I believe large skyscrapers could already have close to this concentration of addresses, if you reduce them down to flat earth surface area. The point here is that breaking out the math based on the surface

Re: IPv6 Ignorance

2012-09-18 Thread Dan Wood
H On Sep 18, 2012, at 11:01 AM, Beeman, Davis davis.bee...@integratelecom.com wrote: Orbits may not be important to this calculation, but just doing some quick head math, I believe large skyscrapers could already have close to this concentration of addresses, if you reduce them down to flat

Re: IPv6 Ignorance

2012-09-18 Thread Jason Baugher
On 9/18/2012 11:01 AM, Beeman, Davis wrote: Orbits may not be important to this calculation, but just doing some quick head math, I believe large skyscrapers could already have close to this concentration of addresses, if you reduce them down to flat earth surface area. The point here is

Re: IPv6 Ignorance

2012-09-18 Thread Cutler James R
On Sep 18, 2012, at 12:38 PM, Jason Baugher ja...@thebaughers.com wrote: What about network-based objects outside of our orbit? If we're talking about IPv6 in the long-term, I think we have to assume we'll have networked devices on the moon or at other locations in space. Jason

Re: IPv6 Ignorance

2012-09-18 Thread Jason Baugher
On 9/18/2012 11:47 AM, Cutler James R wrote: On Sep 18, 2012, at 12:38 PM, Jason Baugher ja...@thebaughers.com wrote: What about network-based objects outside of our orbit? If we're talking about IPv6 in the long-term, I think we have to assume we'll have networked devices on the moon or at

Re: IPv6 Ignorance

2012-09-18 Thread Cutler James R
On Sep 18, 2012, at 12:57 PM, Jason Baugher ja...@thebaughers.com wrote: On 9/18/2012 11:47 AM, Cutler James R wrote: On Sep 18, 2012, at 12:38 PM, Jason Baugher ja...@thebaughers.com wrote: What about network-based objects outside of our orbit? If we're talking about IPv6 in the long-term, I

Re: IPv6 Ignorance

2012-09-18 Thread Jason Baugher
On 9/18/2012 12:07 PM, Cutler James R wrote: On Sep 18, 2012, at 12:57 PM, Jason Baugher ja...@thebaughers.com wrote: On 9/18/2012 11:47 AM, Cutler James R wrote: On Sep 18, 2012, at 12:38 PM, Jason Baugher ja...@thebaughers.com wrote: What about network-based objects outside of our orbit? If

Re: IPv6 Ignorance

2012-09-18 Thread Joe Hamelin
On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 9:47 AM, Cutler James R wrote: ...waste of NANOG list bandwidth. I sure get a chuckle when I read this on a list for people that swing around 10Gb/s pipes all day. -- Joe Hamelin, W7COM, Tulalip, WA, 360-474-7474

Re: IPv6 Ignorance

2012-09-18 Thread Cutler James R
On Sep 18, 2012, at 1:55 PM, Joe Hamelin j...@nethead.com wrote: On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 9:47 AM, Cutler James R wrote: ...waste of NANOG list bandwidth. I sure get a chuckle when I read this on a list for people that swing around 10Gb/s pipes all day. That's why I included a word you

Re: IPv6 Ignorance

2012-09-18 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 11:57:34AM -0500, Jason Baugher wrote: Considering the rather extensive discussion on this list of using quantum entanglement as a possible future communications medium that would nearly eliminate latency, I don't see how my comment is moot or a waste. You need

Re: IPv6 Ignorance

2012-09-18 Thread Mark Andrews
In message 86lig7cvpw@seastrom.com, Robert E. Seastrom writes: Seth Mattinen se...@rollernet.us writes: I came across these threads today; the blind ignorance towards IPv6 from some of the posters is kind of shocking. There are actually a few good points mixed in there, like the

Re: IPv6 Ignorance

2012-09-18 Thread William Herrin
On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 11:39 AM, valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: On Tue, 18 Sep 2012 02:35:43 -0400, William Herrin said: Then we need 32 bits to overlay the customer's IPv4 address for convenience within our 6RD network. Well yeah. You blow 32 bits for silly reasons, you run out of bits.

Re: IPv6 Ignorance

2012-09-18 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Tue, 18 Sep 2012 18:18:28 -0400, William Herrin said: In http://lists.arin.net/pipermail/arin-ppml/2010-September/018180.html I complained about mapping the full 32-bits of IPv4 address into an IPv6 prefix. You responded, You say that like it's somehow a bad thing, and I'm simply not

Re: IPv6 Ignorance

2012-09-18 Thread Mark Andrews
In message 34689.1348009...@turing-police.cc.vt.edu, valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wri tes: --==_Exmh_1348009609_2143P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii On Tue, 18 Sep 2012 18:18:28 -0400, William Herrin said: In http://lists.arin.net/pipermail/arin-ppml/2010-September/018180.html

Re: IPv6 Ignorance

2012-09-18 Thread Owen DeLong
On Sep 18, 2012, at 09:38 , Jason Baugher ja...@thebaughers.com wrote: On 9/18/2012 11:01 AM, Beeman, Davis wrote: Orbits may not be important to this calculation, but just doing some quick head math, I believe large skyscrapers could already have close to this concentration of addresses,

Re: IPv6 Ignorance

2012-09-18 Thread Owen DeLong
I won't dispute that, but let's look at some of the densest uses of it, factoring in the vertical aspects as well... Let's assume an 88 story sky scraper 1 city block square (based on an average of 17 city block/mile). That's 96,465 sq. feet (8,961,918 sq. cm.) total building foot print.

Re: IPv6 Ignorance

2012-09-18 Thread Owen DeLong
6rd itself isn't inherently silly. Mapping your customers onto an entire /32 is. You're much better off taking the size of your largest prefix and assigning a number of bis for the number of prefixes you have. For example, if you have /14, /14, /15, /16, /16, /16, /18, /19, /20, /22, /22, /22,

Re: IPv6 Ignorance

2012-09-17 Thread joel jaeggli
On 9/16/12 9:22 PM, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote: On Mon, 17 Sep 2012, Randy Bush wrote: and don't bs me with how humongous the v6 address space is. we once though 32 bits was humongous. Giving out a /48 to every person on earth uses approximately 2^33 networks, meaning we could cram it into a

Re: IPv6 Ignorance

2012-09-17 Thread Tom Limoncelli
My biggest fear is that statements like this will take on a life of their own: I can dual stack, then I am not out of IPv4 addresses, and thus I have no need for IPv6. If I'm out of IPv4 then I need IPv6 and I can't dual stack. http://forum.ubnt.com/showthread.php?p=355722 Not true but it

Re: IPv6 Ignorance

2012-09-17 Thread John Mitchell
I think people forget how humongous the v6 space is... Remember that the address space is 2^128 (or 340,282,366,920,938,463,463,374,607,431,768,211,456 addresses) to put the in perspective (and a great sample that explained to me how large it was, you will still get 667 quadrillion address

Re: IPv6 Ignorance

2012-09-17 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
With current use cases at least, yes. What do we know of what's going to happen in a decade or two? --srs (htc one x) On Sep 17, 2012 5:58 PM, John Mitchell mi...@illuminati.org wrote: I think people forget how humongous the v6 space is... Remember that the address space is 2^128 (or

Re: IPv6 Ignorance

2012-09-17 Thread Jason Leschnik
Has said forum guy never heard of a phased implementation? Or would he rather a big bang cut over, i'm sure that will work swell. The best way to summarise the feeling for IPv6 was expressed in the Packet Pushers Podcast and that is Network Administrators and System Administrators have forgotten

Re: IPv6 Ignorance

2012-09-17 Thread Adrian Bool
On 17 Sep 2012, at 13:28, John Mitchell mi...@illuminati.org wrote: snip Given that the first 3 bits of a public IPv6 address are always 001, giving /48 allocations to customers means that service providers will only have 2^(48-3) or 2^45 allocations of /48 to hand out to a population

Re: IPv6 Ignorance

2012-09-17 Thread John Mitchell
That is a very fair point, however one would hope (and this is a big hope) that the upper bits are more regulated to stricter standards than the lower bits. In any system there is room for human error or oversight that is always going to be a concern, but standards, good practises and policies

Re: IPv6 Ignorance

2012-09-17 Thread Cameron Byrne
On Sep 17, 2012 5:04 AM, Tom Limoncelli t...@whatexit.org wrote: My biggest fear is that statements like this will take on a life of their own: I can dual stack, then I am not out of IPv4 addresses, and thus I have no need for IPv6. If I'm out of IPv4 then I need IPv6 and I can't dual

Re: IPv6 Ignorance

2012-09-17 Thread Nick Hilliard
On 17/09/2012 14:37, Adrian Bool wrote: It seems a tad unfair that the bottom 80 bits are squandered away with a utilisation rate of something closely approximating zero You are thinking in ipv4 mode. In ipv6 mode, the consideration is not how many hosts you have, but how many subnets you are

Re: IPv6 Ignorance

2012-09-17 Thread Adrian Bool
Hi, On 17 Sep 2012, at 15:02, Nick Hilliard n...@foobar.org wrote: On 17/09/2012 14:37, Adrian Bool wrote: It seems a tad unfair that the bottom 80 bits are squandered away with a utilisation rate of something closely approximating zero You are thinking in ipv4 mode. In ipv6 mode, the

RE: IPv6 Ignorance

2012-09-17 Thread Mike Simkins
RIPE 552 (I think), allows you to request up to a /29 without additional justification if needed. Mike -Original Message- From: Adrian Bool [mailto:a...@logic.org.uk] Sent: 17 September 2012 15:55 To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: IPv6 Ignorance Hi, On 17 Sep 2012, at 15:02, Nick

Re: IPv6 Ignorance

2012-09-17 Thread Blake Dunlap
On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 9:55 AM, Adrian Bool a...@logic.org.uk wrote: I don't really agree with the IPv6 think concept - but let's put that aside for now... The default allocation size from an RIR* to an LIR is a /32. For an LIR providing /48 site allocations to their customers, they

Re: IPv6 Ignorance

2012-09-17 Thread Mark Blackman
On 17 Sep 2012, at 15:55, Adrian Bool a...@logic.org.uk wrote: Hi, On 17 Sep 2012, at 15:02, Nick Hilliard n...@foobar.org wrote: On 17/09/2012 14:37, Adrian Bool wrote: It seems a tad unfair that the bottom 80 bits are squandered away with a utilisation rate of something closely

Re: IPv6 Ignorance

2012-09-17 Thread Matthew Kaufman
On 9/17/2012 5:28 AM, John Mitchell wrote: I think people forget how humongous the v6 space is... Remember that the address space is 2^128 (or 340,282,366,920,938,463,463,374,607,431,768,211,456 addresses) to put the in perspective (and a great sample that explained to me how large it was,

Re: IPv6 Ignorance

2012-09-17 Thread Adrian Bool
Hi Mike, On 17 Sep 2012, at 16:04, Mike Simkins mike.simk...@sungard.com wrote: RIPE 552 (I think), allows you to request up to a /29 without additional justification if needed. Sure, but you're just tinkering at the edges here. 32-bits would be a more sensible allocation size to LIRs,

Re: IPv6 Ignorance

2012-09-17 Thread joel jaeggli
On 9/17/12 8:23 AM, Adrian Bool wrote: Hi Mike, On 17 Sep 2012, at 16:04, Mike Simkins mike.simk...@sungard.com wrote: RIPE 552 (I think), allows you to request up to a /29 without additional justification if needed. Sure, but you're just tinkering at the edges here. 32-bits would be a more

Re: IPv6 Ignorance

2012-09-17 Thread Owen DeLong
On Sep 16, 2012, at 20:23 , Randy Bush ra...@psg.com wrote: [ yes, there are a lot of idiots out there. this is not new. but ] We are totally convinced that the factors that made IPv4 run out of addresses will remanifest themselves once again and likely sooner than a lot of us might

Re: IPv6 Ignorance

2012-09-17 Thread Owen DeLong
On Sep 16, 2012, at 16:58 , John R. Levine jo...@iecc.com wrote: IPv6 has its problems, but running out of addresses is not one of them. For those of us worried about abuse management, the problem is the opposite, even the current tiny sliver of addresses is so huge that techniques from IPv4

Re: IPv6 Ignorance

2012-09-17 Thread Owen DeLong
Actually, as documented below, the assumption is merely that the waste will be less than 4095/4096ths of the address space. ;-) Owen On Sep 17, 2012, at 06:46 , John Mitchell mi...@illuminati.org wrote: That is a very fair point, however one would hope (and this is a big hope) that the

Re: IPv6 Ignorance

2012-09-17 Thread Owen DeLong
On Sep 17, 2012, at 07:55 , Adrian Bool a...@logic.org.uk wrote: Hi, On 17 Sep 2012, at 15:02, Nick Hilliard n...@foobar.org wrote: On 17/09/2012 14:37, Adrian Bool wrote: It seems a tad unfair that the bottom 80 bits are squandered away with a utilisation rate of something closely

Re: IPv6 Ignorance

2012-09-17 Thread Owen DeLong
On Sep 17, 2012, at 08:18 , Matthew Kaufman matt...@matthew.at wrote: On 9/17/2012 5:28 AM, John Mitchell wrote: I think people forget how humongous the v6 space is... Remember that the address space is 2^128 (or 340,282,366,920,938,463,463,374,607,431,768,211,456 addresses) to put the in

Re: IPv6 Ignorance

2012-09-17 Thread Owen DeLong
On Sep 17, 2012, at 08:16 , Mark Blackman m...@exonetric.com wrote: On 17 Sep 2012, at 15:55, Adrian Bool a...@logic.org.uk wrote: Hi, On 17 Sep 2012, at 15:02, Nick Hilliard n...@foobar.org wrote: On 17/09/2012 14:37, Adrian Bool wrote: It seems a tad unfair that the bottom 80 bits

Re: IPv6 Ignorance

2012-09-17 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 11:27:04AM -0700, Owen DeLong wrote: What technology are you planning to deploy that will consume more than 2 addresses per square cm? Easy. Think volume (as in: orbit), and think um^3 for a functional computers ;)

RE: IPv6 Ignorance

2012-09-17 Thread Beeman, Davis
On Sep 17, 2012, at 08:18 , Matthew Kaufman matt...@matthew.at wrote: On 9/17/2012 5:28 AM, John Mitchell wrote: I think people forget how humongous the v6 space is... Remember that the address space is 2^128 (or 340,282,366,920,938,463,463,374,607,431,768,211,456 addresses) to put the in

RE: IPv6 Ignorance

2012-09-17 Thread Blake Pfankuch
VMware vSphere on quad processor 1u servers with 768gb of RAM :) that should yield 80-140 VM's per host :) that gets you close on density. -Original Message- From: Eugen Leitl [mailto:eu...@leitl.org] Sent: Monday, September 17, 2012 1:55 PM To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: IPv6

Re: IPv6 Ignorance

2012-09-17 Thread Mark Andrews
In message cad6ajgrbgk8fzlz-tpl3ogo4trez917sbvc_d9yhh9m28fn...@mail.gmail.com , Cameron Byrne writes: On Sep 17, 2012 5:04 AM, Tom Limoncelli t...@whatexit.org wrote: My biggest fear is that statements like this will take on a life of their own: I can dual stack, then I am not out of

Re: IPv6 Ignorance

2012-09-17 Thread John Levine
In article caarzuotqwgpbw46+xb1ngmcn1yryttpygyymppxpqqug9k6...@mail.gmail.com you write: With current use cases at least, yes. What do we know of what's going to happen in a decade or two? In technology, not much. But I'd be pretty surprised if the laws of arithmetic were to change, or if we

Re: IPv6 Ignorance

2012-09-17 Thread Masataka Ohta
John Mitchell wrote: I think people forget how humongous the v6 space is... They don't. Instead, they suffer from it. Remember that the address space is 2^128 (or 340,282,366,920,938,463,463,374,607,431,768,211,456 addresses) That is one of a major design flaw of IPv6 as a result of failed

Re: IPv6 Ignorance

2012-09-17 Thread Matthew Kaufman
On 9/17/2012 4:32 PM, John Levine wrote: In article caarzuotqwgpbw46+xb1ngmcn1yryttpygyymppxpqqug9k6...@mail.gmail.com you write: With current use cases at least, yes. What do we know of what's going to happen in a decade or two? In technology, not much. But I'd be pretty surprised if the

Re: IPv6 Ignorance

2012-09-17 Thread joseph . snyder
I agree with the way you are looking at it. I know it sounds impressive to talk about hosts, but in ipv6 all that matters is how many subnets do I have and how clean are my aggregation levels to avoid large wastes of subnets. Host addressing is not an issue or concern. So to talk about 128

Re: IPv6 Ignorance

2012-09-17 Thread Owen DeLong
On Sep 17, 2012, at 12:54 , Eugen Leitl eu...@leitl.org wrote: On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 11:27:04AM -0700, Owen DeLong wrote: What technology are you planning to deploy that will consume more than 2 addresses per square cm? Easy. Think volume (as in: orbit), and think um^3 for a

Re: IPv6 Ignorance

2012-09-17 Thread Owen DeLong
:) that should yield 80-140 VM's per host :) that gets you close on density. -Original Message- From: Eugen Leitl [mailto:eu...@leitl.org] Sent: Monday, September 17, 2012 1:55 PM To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: IPv6 Ignorance On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 11:27:04AM -0700, Owen DeLong

Re: IPv6 Ignorance

2012-09-17 Thread Owen DeLong
On Sep 17, 2012, at 16:41 , Masataka Ohta mo...@necom830.hpcl.titech.ac.jp wrote: John Mitchell wrote: I think people forget how humongous the v6 space is... They don't. Instead, they suffer from it. I find it quite useful, actually. I would not say I suffer from it at all. Remember

Re: IPv6 Ignorance

2012-09-17 Thread Randy Bush
In technology, not much. But I'd be pretty surprised if the laws of arithmetic were to change, or if we were to find it useful to assign IP addresses to objects smaller than a single atom. we assign them /64s

Re: IPv6 Ignorance

2012-09-17 Thread Masataka Ohta
Owen DeLong wrote: I also have no more difficulty remembering IPv6 addresses in general than I had with IPv4. I can generally remember You have already demonstrated your ability to remember things wrongly so many times in this ML, your statement is very convincing. the prefixes I care about

Re: IPv6 Ignorance

2012-09-17 Thread joel jaeggli
1:55 PM To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: IPv6 Ignorance On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 11:27:04AM -0700, Owen DeLong wrote: What technology are you planning to deploy that will consume more than 2 addresses per square cm? Easy. Think volume (as in: orbit), and think um^3 for a functional computers ;)

Re: IPv6 Ignorance

2012-09-16 Thread John T. Yocum
On 9/16/2012 9:55 AM, Seth Mattinen wrote: I came across these threads today; the blind ignorance towards IPv6 from some of the posters is kind of shocking. It's also pretty disappointing if these are the people providing internet access to end users. We focus our worries on the big guys like

Re: IPv6 Ignorance

2012-09-16 Thread Seth Mattinen
On 9/16/12 10:06 AM, John T. Yocum wrote: On 9/16/2012 9:55 AM, Seth Mattinen wrote: I came across these threads today; the blind ignorance towards IPv6 from some of the posters is kind of shocking. It's also pretty disappointing if these are the people providing internet access to end

Re: IPv6 Ignorance

2012-09-16 Thread Justin M. Streiner
On Sun, 16 Sep 2012, John T. Yocum wrote: Wow... my brain hurts after reading that. The saddest part is, there are folks with IPv6 allocations that simply refuse to implement dual stack. Agreed. I'm dual-stacked at work, and things work just fine. The only gripe I heard when dual-stack was

Re: IPv6 Ignorance

2012-09-16 Thread John Mitchell
There are some pretty impressive quotes there to take away .. We are totally convinced that the factors that made IPv4 run out of addresses will remanifest themselves once again and likely sooner than a lot of us might expect given the Reccomendations for Best Practice deployment. If I am

RE: IPv6 Ignorance

2012-09-16 Thread Otis L. Surratt, Jr.
You will always have someone who doesn't understand. But every network operator should have a sense of responsibility to learn IPv6 and implement dual stacking. To be honest, in 2004/2005 I decided not to dive into IPv6 heavily but everyone has a wake up call. All we can do is keep stressing

Re: IPv6 Ignorance

2012-09-16 Thread Seth Mattinen
On 9/16/12 9:55 AM, Seth Mattinen wrote: I came across these threads today; the blind ignorance towards IPv6 from some of the posters is kind of shocking. It's also pretty disappointing if these are the people providing internet access to end users. We focus our worries on the big guys like

Re: IPv6 Ignorance

2012-09-16 Thread Masataka Ohta
We should support dual stack, as someone may stop supporting IPv4 in addition to IPv6, because dual stack costs so much. :-) Masataka Ohta

Re: IPv6 Ignorance

2012-09-16 Thread Faisal Imtiaz
Let me shed some light here. (Being familiar with both communities... Nanog and WISP's ) WISP's are a very special breed of folks. There are a few common attributes that one has to recognize about them. 1. Most WISP's are not Technical Folks. (Most of them are Farmers or from other

Re: IPv6 Ignorance

2012-09-16 Thread Justin Wilson
: Re: IPv6 Ignorance Let me shed some light here. (Being familiar with both communities... Nanog and WISP's ) WISP's are a very special breed of folks. There are a few common attributes that one has to recognize about them. 1. Most WISP's are not Technical Folks. (Most of them are Farmers

Re: IPv6 Ignorance

2012-09-16 Thread Jimmy Hess
On 9/16/12, John Mitchell mi...@illuminati.org wrote: If I am understanding this quote correctly the author is worried IPv6 will run out of addresses so won't make the switch... Granted only 1/8th of the IPv6 space has been allocated for internet use but that number is still so mind-boggling

Re: IPv6 Ignorance

2012-09-16 Thread John Levine
If I am understanding this quote correctly the author is worried IPv6 will run out of addresses so won't make the switch... Granted only 1/8th of the IPv6 space has been allocated for internet use but that number is still so mind-boggling _huge_.. I would suggest it's irrational thinking

Re: IPv6 Ignorance

2012-09-16 Thread Jimmy Hess
On 9/16/12, John Levine jo...@iecc.com wrote: IPv6 has its problems, but running out of addresses is not one of them. For those of us worried about abuse management, the problem is the opposite, even the current tiny sliver of addresses is so huge that techniques from IPv4 to map who's doing

Re: IPv6 Ignorance

2012-09-16 Thread John R. Levine
IPv6 has its problems, but running out of addresses is not one of them. For those of us worried about abuse management, the problem is the opposite, even the current tiny sliver of addresses is so huge that techniques from IPv4 to map who's doing what where don't scale. Well, in IPv4... NAT

Re: IPv6 Ignorance

2012-09-16 Thread Jimmy Hess
On 9/16/12, John R. Levine jo...@iecc.com wrote: Large networks keep separate reputation for every address in the IPv4 address space based on the traffic they send. You can't do that in IPv6, That's true, but not an intended system for identifying and reporting abuse, and the same idea occurs

Re: IPv6 Ignorance

2012-09-16 Thread Timothy Morizot
On Sep 16, 2012 6:58 PM, John R. Levine jo...@iecc.com wrote: IPv6 has its problems, but running out of addresses is not one of them. For those of us worried about abuse management, the problem is the opposite, even the current tiny sliver of addresses is so huge that techniques from IPv4 to

Re: IPv6 Ignorance

2012-09-16 Thread Randy Bush
[ yes, there are a lot of idiots out there. this is not new. but ] We are totally convinced that the factors that made IPv4 run out of addresses will remanifest themselves once again and likely sooner than a lot of us might expect given the Reccomendations for Best Practice deployment.

Re: IPv6 Ignorance

2012-09-16 Thread Michael Thomas
On 09/16/2012 08:23 PM, Randy Bush wrote: and don't bs me with how humongous the v6 address space is. we once though 32 bits was humongous. randy No we didn't . Mike

Re: IPv6 Ignorance

2012-09-16 Thread Jimmy Hess
On 9/16/12, Randy Bush ra...@psg.com wrote: and don't bs me with how humongous the v6 address space is. we once though 32 bits was humongous. [snip] When you consider that IPv6 is a 64-bit address space, that is 64 bits are for addressing subnetworks, the /64 spend for addressing hosts

Re: IPv6 Ignorance

2012-09-16 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
On Mon, 17 Sep 2012, Randy Bush wrote: and don't bs me with how humongous the v6 address space is. we once though 32 bits was humongous. Giving out a /48 to every person on earth uses approximately 2^33 networks, meaning we could cram it into a /15. So even if we have 10 /48s at home from

Re: IPv6 Ignorance

2012-09-16 Thread Randy Bush
So I agree with you that there is still a risk that this is going to get screwed up, but I don't feel too gloomy yet. yep. but we dis some wisp hacker for saying so. not cool. randy

Re: IPv6 Ignorance

2012-09-16 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
On Mon, 17 Sep 2012, Randy Bush wrote: So I agree with you that there is still a risk that this is going to get screwed up, but I don't feel too gloomy yet. yep. but we dis some wisp hacker for saying so. not cool. I have to admit I never read the forum text so I don't know exactly what