Re: IPv6 fc00::/7 — Unique local addresses

2010-10-21 Thread Owen DeLong
Which is part one of the three things that have to happen to make ULA really bad for the internet. Part 2 will be when the first provider accepts a large sum of money to route it within their public network between multiple sites owned by the same customer. That same customer is also

Re: IPv6 fc00::/7 — Unique local addresses

2010-10-21 Thread Owen DeLong
On Oct 20, 2010, at 6:46 PM, Matthew Kaufman wrote: On 10/20/2010 6:20 PM, Mark Smith wrote: To make it clear, as it seems to be quite misunderstood, you'd have both ULA and global addressing in your network. Right. Just like to multihome with IPv6 you would have both PA addresses from

Re: Only 5x IPv4 /8 remaining at IANA

2010-10-21 Thread Owen DeLong
On Oct 20, 2010, at 8:36 PM, Patrick Giagnocavo wrote: On 10/18/2010 7:44 AM, Jeroen Massar wrote: APNIC just got another IPv4 /8 thus only 5 left: http://www.nro.net/media/remaining-ipv4-address-below-5.html (And the spammers will take the rest...) So, if your company is not doing IPv6

Re: IPv6 fc00::/7 — Unique local addresses

2010-10-21 Thread Owen DeLong
On Oct 20, 2010, at 9:38 PM, Graham Beneke wrote: On 21/10/2010 03:49, Matthew Kaufman wrote: On 10/20/2010 5:51 PM, Owen DeLong wrote: Part 2 will be when the first provider accepts a large sum of money to route it within their public network between multiple sites owned by the same

Re: IPv6 fc00::/7 — Unique local addresses

2010-10-21 Thread Owen DeLong
On Oct 20, 2010, at 9:30 PM, Graham Beneke wrote: On 21/10/2010 02:41, Owen DeLong wrote: On Oct 20, 2010, at 5:21 PM, Jeroen van Aart wrote: Someone advised me to use GUA instead of ULA. But since for my purposes this is used for an IPv6 LAN would ULA not be the better choice? IMHO, no.

Re: IPv6 fc00::/7 — Unique local addresses

2010-10-21 Thread Owen DeLong
On Oct 20, 2010, at 10:07 PM, Mark Smith wrote: On Thu, 21 Oct 2010 06:38:33 +0200 Graham Beneke gra...@apolix.co.za wrote: On 21/10/2010 03:49, Matthew Kaufman wrote: On 10/20/2010 5:51 PM, Owen DeLong wrote: Part 2 will be when the first provider accepts a large sum of money to route

Re: IPv6 fc00::/7 — Unique local addresses

2010-10-21 Thread Owen DeLong
On Oct 20, 2010, at 10:28 PM, Mark Andrews wrote: In message 4cbfc1d0.60...@apolix.co.za, Graham Beneke writes: On 21/10/2010 02:41, Owen DeLong wrote: On Oct 20, 2010, at 5:21 PM, Jeroen van Aart wrote: Someone advised me to use GUA instead of ULA. But since for my purposes th is is used

Re: IPv6 fc00::/7 — Unique local addresses

2010-10-21 Thread Ray Soucy
For for all intents and purposes if you're looking for RFC1918 style space in IPv6 you should consider the block FD00::/8 not FC00::/7 as the FC00::/8 space is reserved in ULA for assignment by a central authority (who knows why, but with that much address space nobody really cares). People may

Re: Only 5x IPv4 /8 remaining at IANA

2010-10-21 Thread Jeroen Massar
On 2010-10-20 22:19, Joel Jaeggli wrote: On 10/20/10 12:51 PM, Jeroen van Aart wrote: Jeroen Massar wrote: (And the spammers will take the rest...) I am afraid so too. (PS: There seems to be a trend for people calling themselvesIPv6 Pioneers as they recently did something with IPv6, if you

Why ULA: low collision chance (Was: IPv6 fc00::/7 — Unique local addresses)

2010-10-21 Thread Jeroen Massar
On 2010-10-21 13:33, Ray Soucy wrote: [..] People may throw a fit at this, but as far as I'm concerned FD00::/8 will never leave the edge of our network (we null route ULA space before it can leak out, just like you would with RFC1918 space). So you can pretty much use it has you see fit. If

Re: IPv6 fc00::/7 — Unique local addresses

2010-10-21 Thread Owen DeLong
On Oct 21, 2010, at 4:33 AM, Ray Soucy wrote: For for all intents and purposes if you're looking for RFC1918 style space in IPv6 you should consider the block FD00::/8 not FC00::/7 as the FC00::/8 space is reserved in ULA for assignment by a central authority (who knows why, but with that

Re: IPv6 fc00::/7 — Unique local addresses

2010-10-21 Thread Ray Soucy
Sorry for the double post. From re-reading the thread it doesn't sound like you might want ULA at all. The mindset of using RFC1918 space, throwing everything behind a NAT box, and not having to re-configure systems when you change ISP doesn't exist in IPv6. There is no IPv6 NAT (yet). If you

Re: Only 5x IPv4 /8 remaining at IANA

2010-10-21 Thread Jens Link
Owen DeLong o...@delong.com writes: All well and good until some of their customers are on IPv6... Then what? Someone will build an appliance to deal with this problem. ;-) Jens -- - | Foelderichstr. 40 | 13595

Re: Only 5x IPv4 /8 remaining at IANA

2010-10-21 Thread Owen DeLong
On Oct 21, 2010, at 4:59 AM, Jens Link wrote: Owen DeLong o...@delong.com writes: All well and good until some of their customers are on IPv6... Then what? Someone will build an appliance to deal with this problem. ;-) And I estimate that the user experience through such appliances

Re: Why ULA: low collision chance (Was: IPv6 fc00::/ 7 — Unique local addresses)

2010-10-21 Thread Ray Soucy
That's assuming ULA would be the primary addressing scheme used. If that became the norm, I agree, the extra uniqueness would be desirable, perhaps to the point that you should be asking an authority for FC00::/8 space to be assigned. But then why wouldn't you just ask for a GUA at that point.

Re: IPv6 fc00::/7 — Unique local addresses

2010-10-21 Thread Ray Soucy
I guess my point is that as soon as you introduced the human element into ULA with no accountability, it became a lost cause. People can't be trusted to respect the RFC once they know it's non-routed address space, and I suspect most won't. Just like countless vendors still use 1.1.1.1 as a

Re: IPv6 fc00::/7 — Unique local addresses

2010-10-21 Thread Owen DeLong
On Oct 21, 2010, at 4:59 AM, Ray Soucy wrote: Sorry for the double post. From re-reading the thread it doesn't sound like you might want ULA at all. The mindset of using RFC1918 space, throwing everything behind a NAT box, and not having to re-configure systems when you change ISP

Re: IPv6 fc00::/7 — Unique local addresses

2010-10-21 Thread Ray Soucy
See... You're falling into the same elitist mindset that I was trapped in a year ago. Perception is a powerful thing. And Joe IT guy at Mom and Pop dot com (who's network experience involves setting up a Linksys at home) loves his magical NAT box firewall appliance. Over the last year I've been

Re: Why ULA: low collision chance (Was: IPv6 fc00::/ 7 — Unique local addresses)

2010-10-21 Thread William Herrin
On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 8:14 AM, Ray Soucy r...@maine.edu wrote: That's assuming ULA would be the primary addressing scheme used.  If that became the norm, I agree, the extra uniqueness would be desirable, perhaps to the point that you should be asking an authority for FC00::/8 space to be

RE: Only 5x IPv4 /8 remaining at IANA

2010-10-21 Thread Ben Butler
Hi, Showing my ignorance here, but this is one of the things I have wondered, given that we run both v4 and v6 for a period of time on the Internet, presumably at one time or another a particular resource may only be able in v4 land, then v4 and v6, then finally v6 only. I have never been

Re: Only 5x IPv4 /8 remaining at IANA

2010-10-21 Thread Jeroen Massar
On 2010-10-21 16:59, Patrick Giagnocavo wrote: On 10/21/2010 4:28 AM, Owen DeLong wrote: Actually for those of my clients in one location, it served as an impetus to extend a contract with Level3 for another 3 years - with their existing allocation of a /24 of IPv4 addresses included. All

Re: Only 5x IPv4 /8 remaining at IANA

2010-10-21 Thread Patrick Giagnocavo
On 10/21/2010 11:08 AM, Jeroen Massar wrote: On 2010-10-21 16:59, Patrick Giagnocavo wrote: Are IPv6 connected machines unable to access IPv4 addresses? Unless you put a application/protocol translation in the middle IPv6 can't talk to IPv4. yahoo(IVI,Ecdysis NAT64) for two possibilities

Re: Only 5x IPv4 /8 remaining at IANA

2010-10-21 Thread Dan White
On 21/10/10 16:07 +0100, Ben Butler wrote: Hi, Showing my ignorance here, but this is one of the things I have wondered, given that we run both v4 and v6 for a period of time on the Internet, presumably at one time or another a particular resource may only be able in v4 land, then v4 and v6,

Re: Only 5x IPv4 /8 remaining at IANA

2010-10-21 Thread Stephen Sprunk
On 21 Oct 2010 10:07, Ben Butler wrote: Showing my ignorance here, but this is one of the things I have wondered, given that we run both v4 and v6 for a period of time on the Internet, presumably at one time or another a particular resource may only be able in v4 land, then v4 and v6, then

Re: IPv6 fc00::/7 — Unique local addres ses

2010-10-21 Thread Matthew Kaufman
On 10/21/2010 12:57 AM, Owen DeLong wrote: On Oct 20, 2010, at 6:46 PM, Matthew Kaufman wrote: On 10/20/2010 6:20 PM, Mark Smith wrote: To make it clear, as it seems to be quite misunderstood, you'd have both ULA and global addressing in your network. Right. Just like to multihome with IPv6

Re: IPv6 fc00::/7 — Unique local addres ses

2010-10-21 Thread Brandon Ross
On Thu, 21 Oct 2010, Graham Beneke wrote: On 21/10/2010 03:49, Matthew Kaufman wrote: On 10/20/2010 5:51 PM, Owen DeLong wrote: Part 2 will be when the first provider accepts a large sum of money to route it within their public network between multiple sites owned by the same customer. Is

Failover IPv6 with multiple PA prefixes ( Was: IPv6 fc00::/7 — Unique local addresses)

2010-10-21 Thread Jeroen Massar
[Oh wow, that subject field, so handy to indicate a topic change! ;) ] On 2010-10-21 18:29, Allen Smith wrote: [... well described situation about having two/multiple IPv4 upstreams, enabling dual-stack at both, but wanting to failover between them without doing NATv6 ...] Short answer: you

Re: Failover IPv6 with multiple PA prefixes (Was: IPv6 fc00::/7 — Unique local addresses)

2010-10-21 Thread Phil Regnauld
Jeroen Massar (jeroen) writes: Now the problem with such a setup is the many locations where you actually are hardcoding the IP addresses/prefixes into: firewalls, DNS etc. That is the hard part to solve, especially when these services are managed by other parties. And probably the

Re: Only 5x IPv4 /8 remaining at IANA

2010-10-21 Thread Marshall Eubanks
On Oct 21, 2010, at 12:34 PM, Ben Butler wrote: Hi, I can live with running dual stack for a number of years as long as IPv4 has a turn off date, much like analogue TV services, thus putting onus of And how would you propose to achieve that ? Regards Marshall responsibility onto the

RE: Only 5x IPv4 /8 remaining at IANA

2010-10-21 Thread Ben Butler
Hi, What is the consequence of not managing to transition the v4 network and having to maintain it indefinitely. I think if the cost / limitations that this may place on things is great enough then the how will reveal itself with the interested parties. Is there a downside to being stuck

Re: IPv6 fc00::/7 — Unique local addresses

2010-10-21 Thread Ray Soucy
One thing to keep in mind is that your IPv6 router and IP router can be completely different devices. There is no need to forklift your firewall or current setup if you can easily add an IPv6 router to the network. Using multiple ISPs is still something that is a bit tricky. A lot of people

Re: IPv4 sunset date set for 2019-12-31

2010-10-21 Thread Claudio Jeker
On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 10:59:38AM -0700, Majdi S. Abbas wrote: On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 10:52:19AM -0700, Dave CROCKER wrote: But you aren't. No one is. The core requirement for such announcements is that there be a real enforcement arm. If a couple of large carriers set their

RE: IPv6 fc00::/7 - Unique local addresses

2010-10-21 Thread George Bonser
-Original Message- From: Owen DeLong [mailto:o...@delong.com] Sent: Thursday, October 21, 2010 5:26 AM To: Ray Soucy Cc: NANOG list If you're using IPv4 with multiple providers giving you different NAT pools, then, you're looking at outbound, not inbound resiliency and the DNS

Re: IPv4 sunset date set for 2019-12-31

2010-10-21 Thread Joe Loiacono
Justin M. Streiner strei...@cluebyfour.org wrote on 10/21/2010 01:58:46 PM: My next question would be How many times will that get extended/pushed back because somebody screams loudly enough?. It will probably sunset around the time that v6 starts to run out of gas and people start

Re: IPv6 fc00::/7 ??? Unique local addresses

2010-10-21 Thread Steve Meuse
Mark Smith expunged (na...@85d5b20a518b8f6864949bd940457dc124746ddc.nosense.org): ULAs should never and are prohibited from appearing in the global route table The problem with this statement is that everyone thinks their own table isn't the Global Routing Table. -Steve

Re: Only 5x IPv4 /8 remaining at IANA

2010-10-21 Thread Joe Maimon
Dan White wrote: Or are the two simply not inter-communicable? I think that's the $64K question. Do you wait to roll out v6 until you start seeing v6-only hosts start popping up? When do you think that will happen and in what percentages of your target populations to matter? From an

RE: IPv4 sunset date set for 2019-12-31

2010-10-21 Thread Deepak Jain
They would be out of business the day they turn IPv4 off. So it will not happen. IMO, this will not be a decision made by ICANN or a network provider. This will be made by a platform/OS company. Basically, once IPv6 is presumed ubiquitous (it doesn't have to be actually ubiquitous) -- just

RE: IPv6 fc00::/7 - Unique local addresses

2010-10-21 Thread George Bonser
From: Ray Soucy Sent: Thursday, October 21, 2010 5:49 AM To: Owen DeLong Cc: NANOG list Subject: Re: IPv6 fc00::/7 - Unique local addresses See... You're falling into the same elitist mindset that I was trapped in a year ago. Perception is a powerful thing. And Joe IT guy at Mom

RE: Recommendations for Metro-Ethernet Equipment

2010-10-21 Thread Eric Merkel
Thanks to everyone who responded. Just got done talking with Extreme which no one really mentioned. Seems like decent gear reasonably priced. Anyone care to comment on them specifically or have them used them a metro Ethernet build? = Eric Merkel MetaLINK Technologies, Inc. Email: merkel at

Re: Only 5x IPv4 /8 remaining at IANA

2010-10-21 Thread Dan White
On 21/10/10 14:53 -0400, Joe Maimon wrote: Dan White wrote: Or are the two simply not inter-communicable? I think that's the $64K question. Do you wait to roll out v6 until you start seeing v6-only hosts start popping up? When do you think that will happen and in what percentages of your

RE: Only 5x IPv4 /8 remaining at IANA

2010-10-21 Thread George Bonser
From: Dan White Sent: Thursday, October 21, 2010 8:30 AM To: Ben Butler Cc: NANOG Subject: Re: Only 5x IPv4 /8 remaining at IANA I think that's the $64K question. Do you wait to roll out v6 until you start seeing v6-only hosts start popping up? From an accounting and cost recovery

Re: Only 5x IPv4 /8 remaining at IANA

2010-10-21 Thread Leen Besselink
On 10/21/2010 09:25 PM, George Bonser wrote: However, consider the fact that there will be v6 only hosts popping up after IANA/RIR/ISP exhaustion. There will be new entrants in the public internet space that cannot obtain v4 addresses and will be reachable via v6 only ... Yep, you can't do

RE: Failover IPv6 with multiple PA prefixes (Was: IPv6 fc00::/7 — Unique local addresses)

2010-10-21 Thread George Bonser
From: Jeroen Massar Sent: Thursday, October 21, 2010 9:57 AM To: Allen Smith Cc: NANOG list Subject: Failover IPv6 with multiple PA prefixes (Was: IPv6 fc00::/7 — Unique local addresses) [Oh wow, that subject field, so handy to indicate a topic change! ;) ] Short answer: you announce

Re: IPv6 fc00::/7 — Unique local addresses

2010-10-21 Thread Luca Tosolini
On Thu, 2010-10-21 at 14:19 -0400, Ray Soucy wrote: We've decided to disable SLAAC (State-Less Address Auto-Configuration) on almost all our IPv6 networks and use DHCPv6 exclusively. This allows us to only respond with DHCPv6 to the hosts we want to get an IPv6 address instead of enabling it

Re: Failover IPv6 with multiple PA prefix es (Was: IPv6 fc00::/7 — Unique local address es)

2010-10-21 Thread Jeroen Massar
On 2010-10-21 21:35, George Bonser wrote: From: Jeroen Massar Sent: Thursday, October 21, 2010 9:57 AM To: Allen Smith Cc: NANOG list Subject: Failover IPv6 with multiple PA prefixes (Was: IPv6 fc00::/7 — Unique local addresses) [Oh wow, that subject field, so handy to indicate a topic

RE: Only 5x IPv4 /8 remaining at IANA

2010-10-21 Thread George Bonser
From: Ben Butler Sent: Thursday, October 21, 2010 10:18 AM To: 'Marshall Eubanks' Cc: NANOG Subject: RE: Only 5x IPv4 /8 remaining at IANA Hi, What is the consequence of not managing to transition the v4 network and having to maintain it indefinitely. I think if the cost /

Re: IPv6 fc00::/7 — Unique local addresses

2010-10-21 Thread Ray Soucy
I think you're misunderstanding how DHCPv6 works. Don't think of it like DHCP that you're used to. DHCPv6 requires an IPv6 router advertisement to work. There are three flags of interest in a router advertisement. One of them is the A (autonomous) flag which is enabled by default in almost

Re: IPv6 fc00::/7 — Unique local addresses

2010-10-21 Thread Ray Soucy
Also, Keep in mind that DHCPv6 uses a DUID for host identification and not a MAC address. Here is an example ISC DHCPd configuration for an IPv6 network without open pool allocation (it will only respond for hosts in the config). # subnet6 for each network subnet6 FD00:1234:5678:9ABC::/64 {

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

2010-10-21 Thread Ray Soucy
On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 1:17 AM, bmann...@vacation.karoshi.com wrote:  first - IPv6 isn't 5x IPv4, its only 4x... :) Couldn't let this one slide... Bits grow exponentially. Saying IPv6 is 4x IPv4 isn't really accurate unless you're counting bits. A 128-bit address space gives you over 340

Re: IPv6 fc00::/7 — Unique local addresses

2010-10-21 Thread Ray Soucy
And since someone asked me for it off-list, example PACL for IOS to filter RAs and DHCPv6 server traffic on incoming ports: On each switch: ipv6 access-list RA_Guard deny icmp any any router-advertisement deny udp any eq 547 any eq 546 permit any any end And on each switchport: ipv6

ipv6 vs. LAMP

2010-10-21 Thread Christopher McCrory
Hello... I've been following the recent IPv6 threads with interest. I decided to test the M in LAMP for IPv6 support (Although it was really a FreeBSD server not Linux). It seems than only newer versions (5.5 rc) of MySQL support IPv6 network connections. Worse is that although it will

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

2010-10-21 Thread bmanning
On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 04:43:37PM -0400, Ray Soucy wrote: On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 1:17 AM, bmann...@vacation.karoshi.com wrote: first - IPv6 isn't 5x IPv4, its only 4x... :) Couldn't let this one slide... Bits grow exponentially. Saying IPv6 is 4x IPv4 isn't really accurate unless

Re: IPv4 sunset date set for 2019-12-31

2010-10-21 Thread Barry Shein
Well, if the DNS root servers ceased IPv4 service it'd be pretty much a fait accompli as far as the public internet is concerned. And, of course, the RIRs could just cancel all the IPv4 route announcements, whatever they do if someone doesn't pay or whatever. I'm not sure why any would do that

Re: ipv6 vs. LAMP

2010-10-21 Thread Majdi S. Abbas
On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 01:53:49PM -0700, Christopher McCrory wrote: Network operations content: Will We're running MySQL and Postgress servers that do not support IPv6 be a valid reason for rejecting IPv6 addresses from ISPs or hosting providers? First, it's not like the flag day

Re: ipv6 vs. LAMP

2010-10-21 Thread Jack Bates
On 10/21/2010 3:53 PM, Christopher McCrory wrote: Network operations content: Will We're running MySQL and Postgress servers that do not support IPv6 be a valid reason for rejecting IPv6 addresses from ISPs or hosting providers? Why not have v4 and v6? There's never a reason to reject v6,

Re: IPv4 sunset date set for 2019-12-31

2010-10-21 Thread Michael Dillon
How would you respond if that were announced? If I were king for a day, But you aren't.  No one is. The core requirement for such announcements is that there be a real enforcement arm. Not necessarily. If you announce that YOU will treat that date as a sunset date for IPv4 and invite

Re: IPv4 sunset date set for 2019-12-31

2010-10-21 Thread Franck Martin
Putting a sunset clause will happen but when it won't matter much. We are not there yet. However, I could see it also coming from a vendor as a way to get customers to upgrade (after that date we will not support IPv4 anymore and provide patches for IPv4). - Original Message - From:

Re: IPv4 sunset date set for 2019-12-31

2010-10-21 Thread Michael Dillon
This doesn't mean IPv4 will disappear. Just like the 20+ year old machines that are still on the net via IPv4 - legacy protocol gateways, pockets of IPv4 may exist for decades via similar devices -- but at that point, we just dismiss those guys as crackpots. Maybe not quite crackpots, but

Re: ipv6 vs. LAMP

2010-10-21 Thread Leo Bicknell
In a message written on Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 01:53:49PM -0700, Christopher McCrory wrote: open to the world. After a few google searches, it seems that PostgreSQL is in a similar situation. I don't know when PostgreSQL first supported IPv6, but it works just fine. I just fired up a stock

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

2010-10-21 Thread Michael Dillon
Couldn't let this one slide... Bits grow exponentially.  Saying IPv6 is 4x IPv4 isn't really accurate unless you're counting bits. Yep. IPv6 is 128 bits and IPv4 is 32 bits. Lots of folks can get an IPv4 /16 which gives then 16 bits to play with for subnetting. But only network operators

Re: ipv6 vs. LAMP

2010-10-21 Thread Brandon Galbraith
On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 4:53 PM, Dan White dwh...@olp.net wrote: On 21/10/10 14:43 -0700, Leo Bicknell wrote: In a message written on Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 01:53:49PM -0700, Christopher McCrory wrote: open to the world. After a few google searches, it seems that PostgreSQL is in a similar

Re: Recommendations for Metro-Ethernet Equipment

2010-10-21 Thread Ramanpreet Singh
I used Extreme 6808 and 6816 in the core and Summit 24's at the edge/telemetry . The hardware was real flaky. We had lot of issues with the Line cards. Lot of H?w replacements. Make sure if they can provide you some statistics of RMA's. To be fair, Our hardware was EOL, I am not sure if they

Re: Only 5x IPv4 /8 remaining at IANA

2010-10-21 Thread Matthew Petach
On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 12:53 PM, George Bonser gbon...@seven.com wrote: The first step will be a registrar saying after this date, we will no longer issue any IPv4 addresses for whatever reason and at the same time, getting very aggressive in reclaiming space from dead entities, hijackers,

Re: ipv6 vs. LAMP

2010-10-21 Thread Joel Jaeggli
On 10/21/10 2:59 PM, Brandon Galbraith wrote: On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 4:53 PM, Dan White dwh...@olp.net wrote: On 21/10/10 14:43 -0700, Leo Bicknell wrote: In a message written on Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 01:53:49PM -0700, Christopher McCrory wrote: open to the world. After a few google

Re: Re: IPv6 fc00::/7 — Unique local addresses

2010-10-21 Thread Mark Andrews
In message e22a56b3-68f1-4a75-a091-e416800c4...@delong.com, Owen DeLong write s: Which is part one of the three things that have to happen to make ULA really bad for the internet. Part 2 will be when the first provider accepts a large sum of money to route it within their public

Re: Only 5x IPv4 /8 remaining at IANA

2010-10-21 Thread Joe Maimon
Matthew Petach wrote: So...uh...who's going to be first to step up and tell their customers look, you get a v6 /56 for free with your account, but if you want v4 addresses, it's going to cost an extra $50/month. ?? Matt Either the telephone company or the cable company. Probably both.

Re: Why ULA: low collision chance (Was: IPv6 fc00::/7 — Unique loc al addresses)

2010-10-21 Thread Joel Jaeggli
On 10/21/10 6:02 AM, William Herrin wrote: On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 8:14 AM, Ray Soucy r...@maine.edu wrote: That's assuming ULA would be the primary addressing scheme used. If that became the norm, I agree, the extra uniqueness would be desirable, perhaps to the point that you should be

Re: Why ULA: low collision chance (Was: IPv6 fc00::/7 — Unique loc al addresses)

2010-10-21 Thread Jack Bates
On 10/21/2010 5:27 PM, Joel Jaeggli wrote: Announce your gua and then blackhole it and monitor your prefix. you can tell if you're leaking. it's generally pretty hard to tell if you're leaking rfc 1918 since your advertisement may well work depending on the filters of your peers but not very

A10

2010-10-21 Thread Bill Blackford
Anyone on list have any experience with A10 app performance products? How do they compare with F5, CSS, Netscaler, etc. In particular, stability, throughput, how they handle affinity, stickiness, pools (adding, removing nodes live), load balancing algorithms, SSL accel, reports/stats, etc. Thanks

RE: Only 5x IPv4 /8 remaining at IANA

2010-10-21 Thread George Bonser
Sent: Thursday, October 21, 2010 3:08 PM To: George Bonser Cc: Ben Butler; NANOG Subject: Re: Only 5x IPv4 /8 remaining at IANA On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 12:53 PM, George Bonser gbon...@seven.com wrote: The first step will be a registrar saying after this date, we will no longer issue

Re: Re: IPv6 fc00::/7 — Unique local addresses

2010-10-21 Thread Mark Andrews
In message 859028c2-9ed9-43ff-aaf9-6e2574048...@delong.com, Owen DeLong write s: On Oct 20, 2010, at 10:28 PM, Mark Andrews wrote: =20 In message 4cbfc1d0.60...@apolix.co.za, Graham Beneke writes: On 21/10/2010 02:41, Owen DeLong wrote: On Oct 20, 2010, at 5:21 PM, Jeroen van Aart

Re: Why ULA: low collision chance (Was: IPv6 fc00::/ 7 — Unique local addresses)

2010-10-21 Thread Joe Hamelin
Ray said: .. But then why wouldn't you just ask for a GUA at that point. What's the cost for a /48 GUA from ARIN these days? Why pay for something that you're not going to use? I agree with you but as long as the RIRs charge for integers people will make up their own if they can find a way. If

Re: IPv6 fc00::/7 — Unique local addresses

2010-10-21 Thread Karl Auer
On Thu, 2010-10-21 at 01:46 -0700, Owen DeLong wrote: If your big enough to get your own GUA and have the dollars to get it routed then do that. If you are forced to use PA (think home networks) then having a ULA prefix as well is a good thing. home network: 2620:0:930::/48 In Oz it

Re: IPv6 fc00::/7 - Unique local addresses

2010-10-21 Thread Jack Bates
On 10/21/2010 5:56 PM, George Bonser wrote: How does your application on the host decide which address to use when sourcing an outbound connection if you have two different subnets that are globally routable? Many systems generally will go with the closest source address bitwise to the

RE: IPv6 fc00::/7 - Unique local addresses

2010-10-21 Thread Skeeve Stevens
Karl, Where does the 6K come from? AUD$4,175 is the amount - It consists of the Associate Member Fee (AUD 675) and the IP Resource Application Fee (AUD 3,500) Then AUD1180 for a /48 each year. ...Skeeve -- Skeeve Stevens, CEO eintellego Pty Ltd - The Networking Specialists

RE: Recommendations for Metro-Ethernet Equipment

2010-10-21 Thread Brandon Kim
We use quite a bit of extreme switches. I personally don't have anything against them other than their purple color and that I don't really know their IOS that well. But to be fair, they have worked just fine. In the future I hope we can migrate over to cisco switches because I'm

RE: IPv6 fc00::/7 - Unique local addresses

2010-10-21 Thread Karl Auer
On Fri, 2010-10-22 at 10:10 +1100, Skeeve Stevens wrote: Where does the 6K come from? AUD$4,175 is the amount - It consists of the Associate Member Fee (AUD 675) and the IP Resource Application Fee (AUD 3,500) Then AUD1180 for a /48 each year. Er - apologies. Yes, the initial fee covers

Re: Only 5x IPv4 /8 remaining at IANA

2010-10-21 Thread Owen DeLong
As long as there are IPv4 clients, you need IPv4 servers to serve them. Software written (well) for IPv6 can serve both IPv4 and IPv6 from the same socket, so long as you set the socket option IPV6_V6ONLY correctly (default except for errant BSD code), but, the machine needs to have a working IPv4

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

2010-10-21 Thread Bryan Irvine
In the IPv4 world, people had to deal with the results of their own mistakes. In the IPv6 world, it will be your grandchildren and great-grandchildren who will have to deal with your mistakes and they will thank you for leaving them some real challenges and not trying to engineer away their

Re: Why ULA: low collision chance (Was: IPv6 fc00::/ 7 — Unique local addresses)

2010-10-21 Thread William Herrin
On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 6:27 PM, Joel Jaeggli joe...@bogus.com wrote: On 10/21/10 6:02 AM, William Herrin wrote: On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 8:14 AM, Ray Soucy r...@maine.edu wrote: That's assuming ULA would be the primary addressing scheme used.  If that became the norm, I agree, the extra

RE: IPv6 fc00::/7 - Unique local addresses

2010-10-21 Thread Skeeve Stevens
Small correction - there is no annual fee in the first year ;-) But I agree.. it is too much, and APNIC have been reviewing the Initial allocation fee for a while now, but haven't made any move on it. I'd like to see a new class of membership - 'Individual' which had a small allocation (well,

Re: IPv6 fc00::/7 — Unique local addresses

2010-10-21 Thread Owen DeLong
On Oct 21, 2010, at 9:34 AM, Brandon Ross wrote: On Thu, 21 Oct 2010, Graham Beneke wrote: On 21/10/2010 03:49, Matthew Kaufman wrote: On 10/20/2010 5:51 PM, Owen DeLong wrote: Part 2 will be when the first provider accepts a large sum of money to route it within their public network

Re: IPv6 fc00::/7 — Unique local addresses

2010-10-21 Thread Owen DeLong
On Oct 21, 2010, at 9:29 AM, Allen Smith wrote: Hi All, I've inherited a small network with a couple of Internet connections through different providers, I'll call them Slow and Fast. We use RFC 1918 space internally and have a pair of external firewalls that handle NAT and such. Due

Re: Only 5x IPv4 /8 remaining at IANA

2010-10-21 Thread Owen DeLong
I think what you will see is ever increasing fees for IPv4 transit rather than a hard deprecation date. As IPv4 becomes more expensive than IPv6, people will migrate to save money. Owen On Oct 21, 2010, at 9:34 AM, Ben Butler wrote: Hi, I can live with running dual stack for a number of

Re: Failover IPv6 with multiple PA prefixes ( Was: IPv6 fc00::/7 — Unique local addresses )

2010-10-21 Thread Owen DeLong
On Oct 21, 2010, at 10:02 AM, Phil Regnauld wrote: Jeroen Massar (jeroen) writes: Now the problem with such a setup is the many locations where you actually are hardcoding the IP addresses/prefixes into: firewalls, DNS etc. That is the hard part to solve, especially when these services are

Re: IPv6 fc00::/7 - Unique local addresses

2010-10-21 Thread Mark Andrews
In message 5a6d953473350c4b9995546afe9939ee0b14c...@rwc-ex1.corp.seven.com, George Bonser writes: Sent: Thursday, October 21, 2010 3:16 PM To: Owen DeLong Cc: NANOG list Subject: Re: Re: IPv6 fc00::/7 - Unique local addresses =20 IPv4 think. =20 You don't re-address you add a new

Re: IPv6 fc00::/7 — Unique local addresses

2010-10-21 Thread Randy Carpenter
In Oz it costs real money to get IPv6 address space from the RIR (APNIC). Around AUD$6K in the first year, around AUD$1100 each year thereafter. Your /48, according to the ARIN website, cost you US$625 this year, will cost US$937.50 next year, and $1250 every year thereafter.

Re: IPv6 fc00::/7 — Unique local addresses

2010-10-21 Thread Joe Hamelin
On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 5:34 PM, Randy Carpenter rcar...@network1.net wrote: Justification aside, it is quote affordable for a typical power user. For large values of affordable. -- Joe Hamelin, W7COM, Tulalip, WA, 360-474-7474

Re: IPv4 sunset date set for 2019-12-31

2010-10-21 Thread Niels Bakker
* b...@world.std.com (Barry Shein) [Thu 21 Oct 2010, 22:59 CEST]: And, of course, the RIRs could just cancel all the IPv4 route announcements, whatever they do if someone doesn't pay or whatever. I think you're mistaking the default-free zone for Usenet. The DFZ doesn't have 'cmsg cancel'

Re: IPv4 sunset date set for 2019-12-31

2010-10-21 Thread Owen DeLong
On Oct 21, 2010, at 10:58 AM, Justin M. Streiner wrote: On Thu, 21 Oct 2010, Jared Mauch wrote: How would you respond if that were announced? Carriers have been doing technology transitions for years. Cidr to classless. Amps to CDMA or gsm... This is not new. My next question would be

Re: IPv6 fc00::/7 — Unique local addresses

2010-10-21 Thread Owen DeLong
Using multiple ISPs is still something that is a bit tricky. A lot of people have gotten used to the Dual-WAN Firewall appliance boxes that accept connections from two ISPs and handle the failover, depending on NAT to maintain the functionality of the Internal network. Larger organizations

Re: Only 5x IPv4 /8 remaining at IANA

2010-10-21 Thread Owen DeLong
On Oct 21, 2010, at 11:53 AM, Joe Maimon wrote: Dan White wrote: Or are the two simply not inter-communicable? I think that's the $64K question. Do you wait to roll out v6 until you start seeing v6-only hosts start popping up? When do you think that will happen and in what

Re: IPv4 sunset date set for 2019-12-31

2010-10-21 Thread Jack Bates
On 10/21/2010 7:53 PM, Niels Bakker wrote: * b...@world.std.com (Barry Shein) [Thu 21 Oct 2010, 22:59 CEST]: And, of course, the RIRs could just cancel all the IPv4 route announcements, whatever they do if someone doesn't pay or whatever. I think you're mistaking the default-free zone for

Re: IPv6 fc00::/7 - Unique local addresses

2010-10-21 Thread Owen DeLong
They *will* fight you, and tell you to your face that if you want to take NAT away from them it will be from their cold dead hands. And it isn't NAT in and of itself that is attractive. Those people aren't talking about static NAT where you are just translating the network prefix. They

Re: Only 5x IPv4 /8 remaining at IANA

2010-10-21 Thread Owen DeLong
On Oct 21, 2010, at 12:33 PM, Leen Besselink wrote: On 10/21/2010 09:25 PM, George Bonser wrote: However, consider the fact that there will be v6 only hosts popping up after IANA/RIR/ISP exhaustion. There will be new entrants in the public internet space that cannot obtain v4 addresses and

Re: Failover IPv6 with multiple PA prefixes ( Was: IPv6 fc00::/7 — Unique local addresses )

2010-10-21 Thread Owen DeLong
On Oct 21, 2010, at 12:35 PM, George Bonser wrote: From: Jeroen Massar Sent: Thursday, October 21, 2010 9:57 AM To: Allen Smith Cc: NANOG list Subject: Failover IPv6 with multiple PA prefixes (Was: IPv6 fc00::/7 — Unique local addresses) [Oh wow, that subject field, so handy to

Re: Failover IPv6 with multiple PA prefixes (Was: IPv6 fc00::/7 — Unique local addresses)

2010-10-21 Thread Mark Andrews
In message 20101021170258.ge61...@macbook.catpipe.net, Phil Regnauld writes: Jeroen Massar (jeroen) writes: Now the problem with such a setup is the many locations where you actually are hardcoding the IP addresses/prefixes into: firewalls, DNS etc. That is the hard part to solve,

Re: Why ULA: low collision chance (Was: IPv6 fc00::/7 — Unique local addresses)

2010-10-21 Thread Owen DeLong
On Oct 21, 2010, at 3:42 PM, Jack Bates wrote: On 10/21/2010 5:27 PM, Joel Jaeggli wrote: Announce your gua and then blackhole it and monitor your prefix. you can tell if you're leaking. it's generally pretty hard to tell if you're leaking rfc 1918 since your advertisement may well work

Re: Only 5x IPv4 /8 remaining at IANA

2010-10-21 Thread Owen DeLong
On Oct 21, 2010, at 3:29 PM, Joe Maimon wrote: Matthew Petach wrote: So...uh...who's going to be first to step up and tell their customers look, you get a v6 /56 for free with your account, but if you want v4 addresses, it's going to cost an extra $50/month. ?? Matt Either the

Re: IPv6 fc00::/7 — Unique local addresses

2010-10-21 Thread Owen DeLong
On Oct 21, 2010, at 3:15 PM, Mark Andrews wrote: In message e22a56b3-68f1-4a75-a091-e416800c4...@delong.com, Owen DeLong write s: Which is part one of the three things that have to happen to make ULA really bad for the internet. Part 2 will be when the first provider accepts a large

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