Erik de Castro Lopo wrote:
Is anyone using one of the IPv6 enabled Internode conenctions and care to tell us how it's going?
I'm an Internode customer at home (my employer doesn't do domestic premises). So I asked. Internode are currently shipping IPv6 to colocation rack customers. They are working towards shipping it to ADSL customers. They're got in in trial on one of their BRASs, but it's their test BRAS and so won't be solid (since the nature of "test" is that there's no change control, outage notification, etc). I've got a daughter at uni who will kill me if the Internet is down when an assignment is due (assignments these days are submitted over the Internet), so I had to pass on that. Give it a few months to bed in and for Internode to work out what a ADSL customer offering should look like and things should be very, very fine. The major fly in the ointment is the lack of IPv6 ADSL routers. To my knowledge there's only the Cisco stuff, a D-Link, and Linux boxes doing NAT connected via a ADSL modem. Tunnel brokers are fine for experimentation. It's nice to see Internode offer one, as the AARNet one is incredibly hammered (the most-heavily used Hexago box in the world). But neither the ISP nor the customer will want tunnels in the long run -- gamers cry about latency now, just wait until all their gaming traffic routes via Adelaide :-) What Internode have done is impressive. Someone in the commercial space had to make a start, and they have. More power to their arm. -- Glen Turner <http://www.gdt.id.au/~gdt/> -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
