Sprintlink IPv6

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Sprintlink IPv6

• rob rockell
• rrockell_at_sprint.net

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Goals

• play
• Value-Add for customers and others
• free
• not under SLA
• Test Implementations, think about problems

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Timing

• Started 4Q 1997
• (3ffe2900/24)
• 4Q 1998
• about 10 peers, about 5 customers
• 1Q 2000
• 28 peers, over 50 downstream customers

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Plans for IPv6

• NOW
• All peer/cust connex tunneled
• All equipment old, no redundancy

• FUTURE
• Get to exchanges somehow, provide for native
  customer peering
• Deploy good stable IGP, and provide redundant
  services (DNS, etc...)

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Constraints

• Router Vendor Code
• unstable and lacking support
• Dynamic IGP
• BGP functionality
• Next-header functionality
• Applications
• Need more apps.
• no traffic on 6bone (barely).

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Constraints

• Protocol
• Multi-homing?
• Address allocation, auto(re)-configuration,
  routing table scalability.