[AfrIPv6-Discuss] IPv6 adoption per country

[Stephen Honlue]

Thanks Noah for sharing.

My remarks inline.

> On Jan 18, 2016, at 6:04 PM, Noah <noah at neo.co.tz> wrote:
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> On 18 Jan 2016 11:17, "Jean-Claude Mudilu" <jcmudilu at netaca.cd <mailto:jcmudilu at netaca.cd>> wrote:
> >
> > Those already implemented IPv6 need to share their success cases to encourage the community starting use the IPv6 acquired.
> >
> 
>> Whether you are running a Cisco or Juniper or Mikrotik or Huwaii or ZTE, standards are the same but implementation/configuration could be different.
>> 
I totally agree.
>> What you have been doing for IPv4 is what you would pretty much do for IPv6.
>> 
Most networks in Africa are running NAT and rely on this as a security feature for example. With IPv6, they will have to rethink their network topology and security.
>> Only thing that would seem different is the long IPv6 addresses.
>> 
And because this address is so long, some best practices need to be taken in consideration.
-1- The system will heavily rely on DNS
-2- Because it is long, people will have to avoid as much as possible renumbering, therefore, there is need in good planning of the network address plan-This is the first step and one of the most important point in deploying IPv6 networks-
-3- Because it is long, it can imply security vulnerabilities, people have to be aware of all of these and know the countermeasures.
[...]
> But the interfaces, protocols [ospf is-is bgp mpls rsvp etc ] specific configuration would almost look the same fundamentally with the only change being sythaxes like;
> 
> #ip address vs ipv6 address
> #ip route vs  ipv6 route
> #address-family ipv4 vs address-family ipv6
> #ip prefix list vs ipv6 prefix list
> #ip access-list vs ipv6 access-list
> 
Yes really but before diving into configuration, people have to know that IPv6 is not just the successor of IPv4, there is a lot that has changed for example IPv6 heavily really on ICMPv6-with NDP messages-. You won’t just shutdown ICMPv6 for instance as most people did with ICMP and expect IPv6 to work, you therefore need to know various messages codes...
> So check out your vendor configuration documents for the exact sythax.
> 
> PS: Linux/Unix implementation is straight forward though for things like bind, the config files may have things like AAAA for IPv6 blah blah blah…
> 
There is a lot to share with the community to help those that are not yet involved to start right now, that is the reason of this initiative.
Sharing with us here some success cases will help encourage them.
The floor is also opened to those facing some difficulties to share so that the community could help if possible.

Regards,
Stephen.
> > Kind regards
> > Jean Claude
> >
> 
> Noah
> 
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