[AusNOG] IPv6: Where's my tunnel?

[Mark Andrews]

In message <1362634327.5180.6.camel at tardis>, Noel Butler writes:
> On Wed, 2013-03-06 at 13:25 -0800, Mark Smith wrote:
>     > From: Matt Richards
> 
> > >=20
> > > I'd love to turn IPv6 on for our own network, but neither of our upstre=
> ams=20
> > > support it (yes, i know, tunnels. no. i'm not doing that).
> > >=20
> >=20
> > Why not? I did for around 10 years.
> 
> 
> For me at least, because it was bloody painful (speed)... I enable it on
> my pissy little home webserver, but gave up using it for surfing and
> pretty much anything else, wont even use it for mail.
> 
> I rather zippy websites and stuff, than trying to look cool... not that
> I could ever look that but  yeah  :)

Except for traffic that goes back to Australia I really don't see any
noticable difference between tunneled IPv6 and IPv4.

% traceroute bikeshed
traceroute to bikeshed.isc.org (149.20.48.19), 64 hops max, 52 byte packets
 1  192.168.191.233 (192.168.191.233)  7.005 ms  1.927 ms  1.019 ms
 2  10.72.0.1 (10.72.0.1)  110.418 ms  10.717 ms  123.482 ms
 3  bla2-ge0-0-1.gw.optusnet.com.au (198.142.160.185)  8.825 ms  96.950 ms  12.845 ms
 4  * * *
 5  bla5-ge3-2.gw.optusnet.com.au (211.29.126.81)  96.751 ms  113.661 ms  12.509 ms
 6  203.208.190.85 (203.208.190.85)  168.111 ms  310.489 ms  303.611 ms
 7  ge-6-1-0-0.laxow-dr2.ix.singtel.com (203.208.183.142)  188.141 ms
    ge-6-1-0-0.plapx-dr2.ix.singtel.com (203.208.171.13)  300.966 ms
    203.208.149.253 (203.208.149.253)  255.776 ms
 8  ge-0-0-0-0.laxow-cr2.ix.singtel.com (203.208.171.33)  328.296 ms
    ge-0-1-0-0.plapx-dr1.ix.singtel.com (203.208.149.249)  173.974 ms  306.970 ms
 9  paix.r1.pao1.isc.org (198.32.176.3)  176.799 ms  177.243 ms  189.183 ms
10  int-0-0-1-0.r1.sql1.isc.org (149.20.65.10)  177.793 ms  175.745 ms  186.912 ms
11  bikeshed.isc.org (149.20.48.19)  185.974 ms  177.251 ms  178.700 ms
% traceroute6 bikeshed
traceroute6 to bikeshed.isc.org (2001:4f8:3:d::19) from 2001:470:1f00:820:4d1b:368b:d0de:1494, 64 hops max, 12 byte packets
 1  bsdi  6.484 ms  1.834 ms  1.322 ms
 2  dviscorg.tunnel.tserv1.fmt.ipv6.he.net  181.997 ms  179.585 ms  183.233 ms
 3  v702.core1.fmt1.he.net  178.207 ms  191.801 ms  180.078 ms
 4  10gigabitethernet1-1.core1.pao1.he.net  186.969 ms  187.602 ms  178.548 ms
 5  isc.gige-g4-17.core1.pao1.he.net  184.117 ms  188.441 ms  181.210 ms
 6  int-0-1-0-1.r1.pao1.isc.org  181.140 ms
    int-0-1-0-0.r1.pao1.isc.org  181.705 ms
    int-0-1-0-1.r1.pao1.isc.org  184.551 ms
 7  int-0-1-0-0.r1.sql1.isc.org  200.991 ms  184.734 ms  184.719 ms
 8  bikeshed.isc.org  184.969 ms  180.435 ms  180.664 ms
% 

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Mark Andrews, ISC
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