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[rpd] [afnog] Clarification on temporary resource usage

Owen DeLong owen at delong.com
Fri Apr 12 13:24:16 UTC 2019



> On Apr 12, 2019, at 6:16 AM, Frank Habicht <geier at geier.ne.tz> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> On 12/04/2019 16:03, Owen DeLong wrote:
>> I am strongly in favor of at least offering an IPv6 only SSID at AfriNIC meetings.
> 
> we probably don't have enough IP addresses for that.
> </Obvious joke>
> 
> 
>> I’m not at all opposed to eliminating the IPv4 capable SSIDs or turning off IPv4 in general.
> 
> and *you* are surely not causing problems because of this, but what
> about others? Are you volunteering to bring and setup the transition
> things to make my skype work and to deal with all the other user problems?

Nope, but I’ll happily help users figure out how to contact the failing vendors to call their
attention to the problem.

> We found one who has no problem... few hundred to go.

I bet after a few call center floods, the situation would improve.

Owen

> 
> Greetings,
> Frank
> 
> 
>> Owen
>> 
>> 
>>> On Apr 12, 2019, at 5:26 AM, Mark Tinka <mark.tinka at seacom.mu> wrote:
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On 12/Apr/19 12:50, Geert Jan de Groot wrote:
>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> While there have been many "IPv6-only" events already and it isn't
>>>> bringing much, I can talk to the conference organizers to switch off
>>>> IPv4 on the conference network and see what that will bring you. I
>>>> know that I personally will be OK, I know the conference equipment
>>>> will likely be OK, but I'm not sure about the attendees?
>>> 
>>> We had an IPv6-only network for the last ZAPF meeting in Cape Town, last
>>> year.
>>> 
>>> Everything worked except my VPN connection.
>>> 
>>> I later discovered that I had not enabled IPv6 transport on my OpenVPN
>>> implementation on pfSense. So the next time I'm on an IPv6-only
>>> conference network, this should not be an issue.
>>> 
>>> Mark.
>>> 
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