[AusNOG] IPv6

Noel Butler noel.butler at ausics.net
Mon Mar 30 18:37:41 EST 2015


 

On 30/03/2015 12:23, Noel Butler wrote: 

> On 27/03/2015 21:37, Mark Newton wrote: 
> 
>> You're going to make sure that IPv6 cannot possibly be something you can use by constructing an impractical test scenario that is guaranteed to produce a poor result? 
>> 
>> Dual stack, Noel. That means both protocols are running. 
>> 
>> You don't need to nuke IPv4, you just need to prevent Happy Eyeballs from selecting your IPv4 addresses in preference to your higher-latency tunneled IPv6 addresses. 
>> 
>> If you had deployed IPv6 on your network, the latencies if the two protocols would be equivalent and you'd be sending and receiving about half of your household traffic over IPv6 just like the rest of us without needing to tweak any Happy Eyeballs settings. 
>> 
>> That's up from about 10-15% three years ago. IPv4 is diminishing, and will be at background radiation levels by approximately the date at which AusNOG participants decide to stop blocking new IPv6 deployment. 
>> 
>> - mark
> 
> On the contrary Mark, if you and others are saying half my household traffic should be over ipv6, than the other half should just not be there... 
> 
> I have my results, on Saturday I sent David an email checking if it was ok to send it to the list, he has not yet replied, but that's OK I decided since I am blogging about it anyway, I'll advise the link to the post later today, so those who want to see details. It's already written, just need to be polished of typos :) But in case you don't care to read it for details, the summary is I found 0.04% of my sites workable on IPv6. 
> 
> Ohh and Mark Smith's concerns were addressed as well, and only came into play on 1 site.

The indepth details http://bit.ly/1HWhSDq 
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