[AusNOG] My Predictions for the ISP Industry

[Paul Brooks]

On 16/03/2012 12:15 PM, Scott Howard wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 5:55 PM, Paul Brooks <pbrooks-ausnog at layer10.com.au
> <mailto:pbrooks-ausnog at layer10.com.au>> wrote:
>
>     > Ok, well call me surprised. I wouldn't have thought there'd have been more
>     than 1300 people in Australia willing to go to the effort of setting up a
>     configured IPv6 in IPv4 tunnel.
>
>     What effort? - for me, the box did it when it was powered on (well, after I updated
>     the firmware).
>
>
> What "box" was this? Unless things have changed recently, all HE tunnels require
> manual setup of an account/IPv4 endpoint/etc.  It's not a difficult process for the
> right person, but it's not a "just turn it on" process either.


6to4 tunnels don't need manual config.

Its a consumer-level Netgear N600 (WNDR3700), firmware V1.0.16.98, IPv6 WAN mode set
to 'Auto Detect'.
After failing to detect native IPv6 it sets up a 6to4 tunnel automagically - and when
it does, a traceroute shows the tunnel popping out in HE:


(rest taken off-list. Even though its Friday, you guys don't need to be clogged with
the detail)

Paul.

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