[afripv6-discuss] Configuring a 6to4 Relay in Cisco

[Carlos Friacas]

On Thu, 21 Jun 2007, Frank Habicht wrote:

> Hi,

Hi,


> Carlos Friacas wrote:
>> On Thu, 21 Jun 2007, Graham Beneke wrote:
>>> Carlos Friacas wrote:
>>> This is definitely something that I plan to address in the coming
>>> months. However due to the scarcity of bandwidth it could be a while
>>> before it is available over anycast. From previous experience I think
>>> many ISP's would not announce the anycast through their BGP and only
>>> route the anycast on their internal network.
>>
>> It would at least be good if the anycast route gets (through BGP) to a
>> local Internet Exchange [or NAP, using US terminology].
>>
>> I mean, it only gets announced on local peerings, but not on transit links.
>
> I was thinking the same. But I guess one has to be careful, if
> (eventually) too many peers' customers come to your 6to4 relay over te
> local ipv4 peering, and then they use your ipv6 transit or tunnel and
> you pay much for it....

Yes, that is always a danger. But the general idea is to be able to always 
see how much 6to4 traffic your 6to4 relay is handling.


> But surely good to get something started and tested.

Well, yes..... if we look at an (european) 6to4 relay map, a good portion 
have emerged from academic networks, where available bandwidth is not a 
problem.

Maybe when UbuntuNet becomes stronger, their members can give a hand with 
this issue too. :-)


> Regards,
>
> Frank
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Cheers,

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