Might be a lot of work involved, might be recouping costs for previous work, might be a 5 minute job that requires going up and down the chain and therefore costing the company such a setup fee.<div><br></div><div>As Mark suggested "Why are you people continuing to reward providers of IPv4-only transit by giving them money?". Maybe suggest to them that you will move to another provider, that might get them to drop the setup fee (which I assume must be substantial?)?</div>
<div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 4:25 PM, Matt Richards <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:matt@shakesbeare.com" target="_blank">matt@shakesbeare.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<div>On 8/03/2013 10:53 a.m., Matt Richards
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<div>I don't get it.</div>
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<div>Why are you people continuing to reward providers of
IPv4-only transit by giving them money?</div>
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<div>Tunnels were a 2008 thing. Unless you're talking about
consumer broadband (which remains restrictive), there have
been so many options for dual-stack transit for so long that
there's very little excuse to not have at least ONE upstream
link running it.</div>
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<div>Probably at least one of your upstreams actually <i>does</i>
support it, but you haven't asked them to turn it on.</div>
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<div>Aren't you building IPv6 into your purchasing decisions
anyway?</div>
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<div> - mark</div>
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Sadly, transit choice isn't up to me, otherwise we'd be using
v6-capable transit providers. When we went shopping for transit,
Internode was 5 times the price of the company we went with. And
no, I've asked our upstreams. They don't have it. <br>
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I've made sure our network hardware can do v6. I'm just waiting on
our upstreams. However, we do need more bandwidth, so I'm trying
to talk my bosses into a new provider (who just happens to be able
to do v6...)<br>
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Matt.<br>
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So I thought I'd ask my upstreams again if they could now support
v6. One of them came back with yes! Sadly, they want to charge a
setup fee as there's 'quite a bit of work involved'.<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
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Matt.<br>
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