[AusNOG] another ipv6 Q

[Skeeve Stevens]

Mark,

To be accurate, ipv6 from APNIC is not $0.

If your IPv6 allocation exceeds the value of the IPv4 allocation, you will
pay the greater of the two.

You get a LOT for that, but, still.


...Skeeve

*Skeeve Stevens - *eintellego Networks Pty Ltd
skeeve at eintellegonetworks.com ; www.eintellegonetworks.com

Phone: 1300 239 038; Cell +61 (0)414 753 383 ; skype://skeeve

facebook.com/eintellegonetworks ;  <http://twitter.com/networkceoau>
linkedin.com/in/skeeve

twitter.com/theispguy ; blog: www.theispguy.com


The Experts Who The Experts Call
Juniper - Cisco - Cloud - Consulting - IPv4 Brokering


On Thu, Jul 3, 2014 at 11:00 AM, Mark Andrews <marka at isc.org> wrote:

>
> In message <
> A3FB5D9FD28C50429DF7692DC31054E606E47A67 at DC1INTADCW8201.yieldbroker.com>,
>  Alex Samad - Yieldbroker writes:
> > >     2002:<ipv4>:: (6to4) is not recommended.
> >
> > Care to explain why.
> >
> > So you get a /48 without having to pay for it, you don't have to use it
> to =
> > do  6to4.
>
> If you are getting IPv4 address space from APNIC you can get IPv6
> address space for $0.  You pay MAX(IPv4 cost, IPv6 cost).  ARIN and
> RIPE have similar policies I believe.
>
> > The only issue I see is if you can advertise the /48, but that would be
> a p=
> > rocedural thing not a technical reason ... less there is something in
> the r=
> > fc... but I am thinking that would be strange.
>
> 6to4 has lots of gotchas that regular IPv6 space does not have.
>
> Firstly you do not advertise more specifics.  This is to prevent
> having to import the entire IPv4 routing space into IPv6 thereby
> effectively doubling the routing table.
>
> You have idiots that filter IPv4 in IPv6.
>
> You have firewalls that don't allow reply packets in.  They can come from
> any IPv4 address not just the ones you send the encapsulated packets to.
>
> You are depending apon the good will of others to {de}encapsulate
> traffic.  Some of these boxes have been known to get overloaded.
>
> > Alex
> >
> --
> Mark Andrews, ISC
> 1 Seymour St., Dundas Valley, NSW 2117, Australia
> PHONE: +61 2 9871 4742                 INTERNET: marka at isc.org
> _______________________________________________
> AusNOG mailing list
> AusNOG at lists.ausnog.net
> http://lists.ausnog.net/mailman/listinfo/ausnog
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.ausnog.net/pipermail/ausnog/attachments/20140703/815bd7dd/attachment.html>