[AusNOG] IPv6 excuses

[James Hodgkinson]

They changed the wording on the free traffic page a couple of months ago
to remove the explicit "IPV6 will cost you" wording. Can't remember
when, but it did.

https://iihelp.iinet.net.au/support/node/1843/

James

On Wed, 8 Jun 2016, at 14:19, Mark Newton wrote:
> On Jun 8, 2016, at 2:02 PM, simon at attwell.net wrote:
> 
> > However, all IPv6 traffic has always been counted against your quota. No access to "free" services on IPv6 like the internode mirror or Netflix. As far as I know this is still the case and you are still warned about this when enabling IPv6 in the MyInternode portal.
> 
> This was never an issue until recently, because there weren’t any IPv6
> content sources on the unmetered list anyway.
> 
> The file mirror was IPv4 only (and a drop in the ocean for traffic; who
> cares if it’s unmetered when it’s a rounding error?). And the game server
> network was never IPv6.
> 
> Netflix changed that, of course.
> 
> My current understanding is that some software upgrades needed to fix
> some “crash after NNN days” on the BRAS systems have been carried out,
> and that was the obstacle in the way of (re)enabling unmetering for IPv6.
> 
> So I’m not totally sure whether IPv6 has unmetering capability at the
> moment. Maybe someone like Brad can clue us in.
> 
> The technical method to do it was pretty straightforward, by the way: If
> you set up class-based accounting on a Cisco ASR1000-series BRAS, and
> define two QoS classes which match IPv4 and IPv6 “deny free sites; permit
> any” ACLs, you’ll get a Radius accounting stream for each class. Plug
> that into your billing system, and away you go.
> 
> > Also media providers haven't really caught on to IPv6 yet. Ten play for example will not play their "live" streams if you use IPv6. 
> 
> But will if you’re dual stack, so that’s okay.
> 
> > So whilst my home network might be fully IPv6 capable it remains disabled.
> 
> That’s a bit weird. Why?
> 
>   - mark
> 
> 
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