[AusNOG] IPv6 excuses

[Michael J. Carmody]

As an engineer who just turned on dual-stack for a local residential ISP, we did it “just because”, and to be a good netizen, and for plain old curiousity.

Aside from a few tens of hours of engineering for build, test and deploy its pretty much cost neutral.

I was more afraid of additional support burden for the ISP, but this turned out to be a non-event (two cases in total of broken CPE just refusing to work with IPv6, and IPv4 breaking along with it)

Mind you some tangible double digit percentage are just saying “no thanks” during the IPCP session when offered IPv6.

I think about 5% of that customers transit is now native IPv6 since the switch over last month.

-Michael Carmody


From: AusNOG [mailto:ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net] On Behalf Of Aftab Siddiqui
Sent: Friday, 27 May 2016 2:07 PM
To: Mark Smith
Cc: AusNOG Mailing List
Subject: Re: [AusNOG] IPv6 excuses


ISPs could create that incentive by making a dual IPv4/IPv6 stack
service cheaper than a single IPv4 stack service. The answer to the
"why" question above then becomes "because we get cheaper Internet
access."

Here is the response from my residential ISP :)
[its an NBN 100/40 service]

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Thank you for your e-mail.

We regret to inform you that we do not support native IPv6 for residential customers. However we can provide you an explicit 6 to 4 tunneling solution so that allows IPv6 packets to be transmitted over our IPv4 backbone.

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