[AusNOG] My Predictions for the ISP Industry

[Smith, Mark]

Sure, 6to4 tunnels don't need config, and I know that not all 6to4 tunnels from Australia are going via HE 6to4 tunnel servers - I used 6to4 for many years in Adelaide, and my 6to4 tunnel server was the one in Pipe in Brisbane, as it was IPv4 toplogically closest. HE don't say what types of tunnels they're counting, so I'd have assumed that they're counting configured ones, because recording and counting stateless 6to4 tunnels would be significantly harder (is receiving a single 6to4 packet once every 4 weeks a valid "tunnel" to count?). That being said, if they're counting active configured tunnels, I'm still surprised at the numbers.


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From: ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net [mailto:ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net] On Behalf Of Paul Brooks
Sent: Friday, 16 March 2012 1:05 PM
To: ausnog at lists.ausnog.net
Subject: Re: [AusNOG] My Predictions for the ISP Industry


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> 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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