[Community-Discuss] v6 finally working from Cameroon and more

PATRICK KOUOBOU patrickouobou at gmail.com
Mon Dec 5 09:54:32 UTC 2016


Hi @Willy,  that's great information.

+100 @Stephen.

2016-12-03 15:49 GMT+01:00 Stephen Honlue <stephen.honlue at afrinic.net>:

> Hi @Willy,
>
> That is good, I hope others will follow, firstly the Universities as you
> said, consider talking to them individually(we can make a plan), to my
> knowledge, all of them are connected via Camtel, and some are even
> tunneling.
>
> Camtel should also strategise to push v6 to customers, because most of
> these clients do not care, they just want Facebook to be accessible.
>
> Again, good work, and I think, @AFRINICtraning should give priority to
> those not having v6 yet, so as to get them on board :)
>
> Regards,
>
> On 03/12/2016 14:39, Willy MANGA wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> speaking from an end-user perspective :)
>
> Some months ago on afripv6-discuss [1] I was talking about our small
> network reachable through v6 tunnel while waiting our ISP (CAMTEL,
> AS15964) terminate v6 routing.
>
> Since 3 days, we are able to communicate with the internet using native
> v6 address.
> If they configure the reverse DNS, I will be more than happy to give
> native v6 address to our main servers (especially the smtp server).
> Some users network are working through dual-stack. It works fine.
> I also request v6 routing on one another site in Cameroon.
>
> In order to achieve that (in my context at least) : self commitment, lot
> of advocacy at various stage,level and most important being able to play
> with your wallet (IF YOUR ISP CONSIDERS YOU AS A GOOD CUSTOMER) :"You
> don't activate, we don't pay; even worse we will move on".
> It's been 10 years since CAMTEL has been allocated v6 prefix. I may be
> wrong but it was not really use since that period. We constrain them to
> deploy it and they make it happen.
>
> While doing that I hope more netadministrators (ESPECIALLY IN
> UNIVERSITIES) will request v6 too in my country.
> When you ask to some people,entities (in Cameroon): «why don't you
> deploy v6 on your network ?»; the answer is : either «it's up to $ISP to
> deploy first, then I will follow» or «I do not see the needs; Why do I
> need to let people use globally routable address ?»
> No one want to start with at least a concrete transition plan.
>
> Frankly speaking, I can't talk for the professionnal area but
> universities have *no excuses* to not use IPv6 at all. Courses,
> researchs related to internet protocol should be based on v6 . Thus it
> will help if network are running on v6.
>
> At last, we should repeat it everytime : "stop (or at least reduce)
> using NAT". Period.
>
>
> P.S : by the way I hope that for 2017, training team will give
> priorities to local hosts who are using v6 (even through tunnel) ;)
>
> 1. https://lists.afrinic.net/pipermail/afripv6-discuss/2016/002047.html
>
>
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