<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Thanks Noah for sharing.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">My remarks inline.</div><div class=""><br class=""><div class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jan 18, 2016, at 6:04 PM, Noah <<a href="mailto:noah@neo.co.tz" class="">noah@neo.co.tz</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><p dir="ltr" class=""><br class="">
On 18 Jan 2016 11:17, "Jean-Claude Mudilu" <<a href="mailto:jcmudilu@netaca.cd" class="">jcmudilu@netaca.cd</a>> wrote:<br class="">
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> Those already implemented IPv6 need to share their success cases to encourage the community starting use the IPv6 acquired.<br class="">
></p><p dir="ltr" class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">Whether you are running a Cisco or Juniper or Mikrotik or Huwaii or ZTE, standards are the same but implementation/configuration could be different.</blockquote></p></div></blockquote><div class=""><div class="">I totally agree.</div></div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><p dir="ltr" class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">What you have been doing for IPv4 is what you would pretty much do for IPv6.</blockquote></p></div></blockquote><div class=""><div class="">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.</div></div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><p dir="ltr" class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">Only thing that would seem different is the long IPv6 addresses. </blockquote></p></div></blockquote>And because this address is so long, some best practices need to be taken in consideration.</div><div>-1- The system will heavily rely on DNS</div><div>-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-</div><div>-3- Because it is long, it can imply security vulnerabilities, people have to be aware of all of these and know the countermeasures.</div><div>[...]</div><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><p dir="ltr" class="">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;</p><p dir="ltr" class="">#ip address vs ipv6 address<br class="">
#ip route vs ipv6 route<br class="">
#address-family ipv4 vs address-family ipv6<br class="">
#ip prefix list vs ipv6 prefix list<br class="">
#ip access-list vs ipv6 access-list</p></div></blockquote><div class=""><div class="">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...</div></div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><p dir="ltr" class="">So check out your vendor configuration documents for the exact sythax.</p><p dir="ltr" class="">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… </p></div></blockquote>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.</div><div>Sharing with us here some success cases will help encourage them.</div><div>The floor is also opened to those facing some difficulties to share so that the community could help if possible.</div><div><br class=""></div><div>Regards,</div><div>Stephen.<br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><p dir="ltr" class="">> Kind regards<br class="">
> Jean Claude<br class="">
></p><p dir="ltr" class="">Noah</p>
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