[AusNOG] DS-Lite is IPv6-only from outside...

Robert Hudson hudrob at gmail.com
Wed Jun 18 19:22:26 EST 2014


It has started.

It will only take one compelling service to be IPv6 only to really start
driving IPv6 adoption as customers start screaming at network providers...
On 18/06/2014 7:06 PM, "Karl Auer" <kauer at biplane.com.au> wrote:

> Interesting problems some people have. This just showed up on the German
> Gogo6 forum (loose translation by me):
>
>    "I live in the border region of Germany, and the telcos like ignoring
> us,
>     but fibre has started to arrive - FTTH and FTTB. Great, I thought,
> finally
>     I'll get fast Internet (my old connection is 768Kbps, I'm lucky to
> see
>     90KB/s). Now we have 100Mb/s - but it's IPv6 only, with DS-Lite. I
> run a
>     NAS/fileserver, and all the people that want to get to it have only
> IPv4,
>     while I have only an IPv6 connection."
>
> He's thought of setting up a dual-stack node somewhere and providing a
> tunnel into his server. He's thought of running the gogo6 client in
> reverse tunnelling mode. But the simple fact is that he has an IPv6 only
> service, and lots of users that are IPv4-only. His problems will ease
> with time - theirs will only get worse.
>
> Kind of a case study in the problems of CGN from a home customer point
> of view - at least one kind of home customer.
>
> Regards, K.
>
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