[AfrIPv6-Discuss] IPv6 adoption per country

SM sm at resistor.net
Fri Jan 22 14:08:58 UTC 2016


Hi Daniel,
At 04:59 22-01-2016, Daniel Shaw wrote:
>Hello again! :-)

:-)

>Am I missing something here? Or is this inline comment unrelated to 
>anything else in the post it's replying to? I don't get it...

It's old stuff. :-)

>If you (or anyone on the list) have any specific questions I'll be 
>happy to answer them. AFRINIC's IPv6 implementation is pretty 
>straightforward. Of course AFRINIC is not a large ISP or Campus. As 
>such, we're fortunate in that our network needs are not very 
>complex. We have a handful of vlans for various purposes within a 
>give site. The IPv4 address plan allocates different sized subnets 
>based on the needs of the vlan, but for IPv6 it's much easier. We 
>have the standard /48 per site, and out of that we allocate a single 
>/64 per VLAN.

Nishal and I did the IPv6 implementation for AfriNIC.

>So to summarise:
>- Upstream providers we use are dual-stack.
>- We don't do NAT, and have an IPv4 end-user assignment that meets our needs.
>- Address planning is kept simple and standard - IPv6 /48 per 
>site/ASN, /64 per vlan.
>- Dual-stack everything everywhere all the time, unless simply not possible.
>
>Again, as a small corporate network, plus a small hosting network 
>for our services, that's all we need. We don't have very complex requirements.

I suggested previously that it would be useful to share the details 
by publishing a document about it on the web.  It's up to AfriNIC to 
see whether it wants to cover more than IP addressing in the document.

Regards,
-sm 




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