[AusNOG] IPv6 excuses

Mark Smith markzzzsmith at gmail.com
Fri May 27 14:38:51 EST 2016


On 27 May 2016 at 14:11, Michael J. Carmody <michael at opusv.com.au> wrote:
> As an engineer who just turned on dual-stack for a local residential ISP, we
> did it “just because”, and to be a good netizen, and for plain old
> curiousity.
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> Aside from a few tens of hours of engineering for build, test and deploy its
> pretty much cost neutral.
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> I was more afraid of additional support burden for the ISP, but this turned
> out to be a non-event (two cases in total of broken CPE just refusing to
> work with IPv6, and IPv4 breaking along with it)
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> Mind you some tangible double digit percentage are just saying “no thanks”
> during the IPCP session when offered IPv6.
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It is an option on a number of BRASes to be even more polite - to only
offer IPV6CP if the other end asks.

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> I think about 5% of that customers transit is now native IPv6 since the
> switch over last month.
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> -Michael Carmody
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> From: AusNOG [mailto:ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net] On Behalf Of Aftab
> Siddiqui
> Sent: Friday, 27 May 2016 2:07 PM
> To: Mark Smith
> Cc: AusNOG Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [AusNOG] IPv6 excuses
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> ISPs could create that incentive by making a dual IPv4/IPv6 stack
> service cheaper than a single IPv4 stack service. The answer to the
> "why" question above then becomes "because we get cheaper Internet
> access."
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> Here is the response from my residential ISP :)
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> [its an NBN 100/40 service]
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> Thank you for your e-mail.
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> We regret to inform you that we do not support native IPv6 for residential
> customers. However we can provide you an explicit 6 to 4 tunneling solution
> so that allows IPv6 packets to be transmitted over our IPv4 backbone.
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