[AfriNIC-rpd] IPV6 Adoption

[Mark J Elkins]

Colin Alston wrote:
> On 27/03/2008 08:46 Badru Ntege wrote:
>> 1) Are you currently running IPv6 in either test or production mode
>
> Yes. A /48 tunnel from Hurricane Electric, distributed from our head 
> office - we aren't big enough to be a LIR, and no ISP's will give us 
> native over DSL.
>
> Am waiting on stable support from some bits of software which I'm 
> hoping will arrive mid-year, primarily Squid.
>
> ip6tables and iproute2-rules also still needs *lots* of work before 
> it's production ready in my opinion.
>
>> 2) Are you aware of any Network operators on the continent with either
>> published or internal V6 plans
>
> I know POSIX and Apolix (both Directors there have replied to this 
> already) have been working at it for some time.
:-)

And UniForum SA has its own /48 - which works well...
>
> Verizon claims to have plans - but they have a prefix but have never 
> announced or given solid details of their plans.
>
Hmm... I peer with them - and AfriNIC is one of their upstream customers 
- that all works just fine.

# traceroute6 www.afrinic.net
traceroute to www.afrinic.net (2001:42d0::200:80:1) from 
2001:42a0:1000:ff02:20e:cff:fe3e:99ca, 30 hops max, 24 byte packets
 1  cispos2-fe0-0.posix.co.za (2001:42a0:1000:ff02::1)  0.908 ms  0.794 
ms  0.785 ms
 2  cisrb1-cispta2.posix.co.za (2001:42a0:0:ff01::1)  15.6 ms  26.523 
ms  79.914 ms
 3  cisjinx-fe0-0.posix.co.za (2001:42a0:0:ff02::6)  27.605 ms  18.084 
ms  16.651 ms
 4  verizon.jinx.net.za (2001:478:142::11)  16.449 ms  53.758 ms  30.045 ms
 5  2001:4218::100:5 (2001:4218::100:5)  50.403 ms  72.775 ms  33.027 ms
 6  2001:4218:0:1::2 (2001:4218:0:1::2)  33.254 ms  204.642 ms  40.816 ms
 7  www.afrinic.net (2001:42d0::200:80:1)  97.509 ms  44.014 ms  68.36 ms

> IS claims to have plans - they have a prefix and are announcing as of 
> 2008-03-20. I'm eager to find out what these are.

I too noticed that they seem to be "up" - but unaware of any local peering.
>
> MTN-NS has not claimed to have plans, they have a prefix but have 
> never announced.
>
> Telkom can never "confirm or deny" anything (as usual ;)), but they do 
> announce - I don't know if they resell native yet though in any way 
> accessible to smaller players.

Well - I do have an IPv6 peering session with them. Not sure what 
traffic runs over this yet...

>
> Neotel are not announcing their prefix - I find this most disturbing 
> since they have built their network very recently, it should have been 
> fairly easy to factor v6 in and run a dual stack immediately. They may 
> or may not be doing this, however they do not make mention of anything
>
> TENET have very published plans and have been the earliest adopter so 
> far. They are strictly for tertiary upstream though.
>

But do peer locally (eg - with UniForum and Posix)

>> 3) Are you aware of any government supported initiatives around the V6
>> adoption
>
> No
>
>> 5) Any suggestions on what we should be doing as a community ??
>
> I think we're doing or have done what we should be doing. That is to 
> support the right policies to get us closer to adoption, and to 
> pressurise incumbent ISPs into seeing the business case for v6.
>
> -- 
> Colin Alston <colin at thusa.co.za>
> Linux & Internet Services
> Thusa Business Support (Pty) Ltd
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>
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