[AusNOG] native v6 transit?

Bob Purdon Bob.Purdon at staff.pipenetworks.com
Thu Mar 20 08:29:40 EST 2008


> I think that anyone who already has purchased transit would 
> like to know the nature of the underlying technology, e.g. is 
> the transit provider using tunnels or is it dual 
> stack/native? They might also want a way to signal so that 
> their announcements are blocked from the transit. This 
> probably applies in the peering case too as they may have a 
> native peering elsewhere that they would want to use in 
> preference to a tunnel based solution (where the MTU has been 
> buggered up).

This sort of stuff is a given if we inject transit into the V6 exchanges
- Steve and I had already discussed this prior to it being announced, as
obviously peers with their own transit would probably prefer to use
that.

Cheers.



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