I wish I had a job that involved bogon hunting and IPv6 implementation! I just read this RIPE45 presentation from 2003, Hunting the Bogon, I liked it. I also glanced at the 6XS Tweet feed.
The IPv4 to IPv6 conversion is very important. (Then there's the matter of tunnel brokers, which I barely understand!) It seems that minimal corporate resources are devoted to IPv6, and that worries me. Perhaps I'm only observing the lack of coverage in media and web consciousness, since I'm not close to it at my job? (I do data governance and EDI and data integrity and data anomaly ID. No one is ever interested in data policy or data discrepancy reporting until something goes very wrong....) Maybe well-funded work is done quietly behind the scenes? That isn't the case for 6XS, and I'm wondering how much other work assuring IPv6 connectivity is also done by dedicated volunteers.
Is most activity on Ghost Route hunting (and discovery of ARIN to WhoIs to IP number to Registrant data mismatches in general) done in Europe rather than the U.S.A.? I know that there are tunnel brokers like HE that I assume are U.S.-based, but are there US-based efforts similar to 6XS? I hope so!
For v6, I think HE has the best free training. All it takes is a DD-WRT router (v23 voip works well but maybe the weird issues were fixed in later v24 code) or a Netscreen 5-GT or better, get a tunnel setup (super easy with HE's instructions) and start having fun with HE's training. XP SP3 has IPv6 in it (it just isn't enabled by default) as does w2k3 and on. VMs can help if you don't want to FUBAR your machine but...Windows does not pass IPv6 from a VM over a physical interface without v6 installed on the physical interface. I have seen no issues on any Windows XP system on which I have enabled v6.
Also, check out gogo6 (http://www.gogo6.com/). Lots of v6 fans there.
I now have Windows 7 64-bit, and my router gives me the choice of a IPv4 or IPv6, but I'm a little uneasy about messing with it, as there is so much going on with Win 7 that I feel like a sys admin.
To say Windows 7 is unreliable is an understatement: check out my Win 7 Reliability History chart: http://yfrog.com/bc7bxp, for a larger view (or maybe smaller) try this: http://a.yfrog.com/img408/4359/7bx.png. I uploaded the screen shot to a Twitter photo site.
That was produced using my Toshiba X505-860 which I got as a desktop replacement a month or two back (well, I still have the desktop PC too. Never can have enough PC's... I guess). It weighs nearly 12 lbs, lives on a table on wheels, not at all portable but I like it a lot better than its predecessor, my Toshiba Satellite L25.
I wish I had a job that involved bogon hunting and IPv6 implementation! I just read this RIPE45 presentation from 2003, Hunting the Bogon, I liked it. I also glanced at the 6XS Tweet feed.
ReplyDeleteThe IPv4 to IPv6 conversion is very important. (Then there's the matter of tunnel brokers, which I barely understand!) It seems that minimal corporate resources are devoted to IPv6, and that worries me. Perhaps I'm only observing the lack of coverage in media and web consciousness, since I'm not close to it at my job? (I do data governance and EDI and data integrity and data anomaly ID. No one is ever interested in data policy or data discrepancy reporting until something goes very wrong....) Maybe well-funded work is done quietly behind the scenes? That isn't the case for 6XS, and I'm wondering how much other work assuring IPv6 connectivity is also done by dedicated volunteers.
Is most activity on Ghost Route hunting (and discovery of ARIN to WhoIs to IP number to Registrant data mismatches in general) done in Europe rather than the U.S.A.? I know that there are tunnel brokers like HE that I assume are U.S.-based, but are there US-based efforts similar to 6XS? I hope so!
For v6, I think HE has the best free training. All it takes is a DD-WRT router (v23 voip works well but maybe the weird issues were fixed in later v24 code) or a Netscreen 5-GT or better, get a tunnel setup (super easy with HE's instructions) and start having fun with HE's training. XP SP3 has IPv6 in it (it just isn't enabled by default) as does w2k3 and on. VMs can help if you don't want to FUBAR your machine but...Windows does not pass IPv6 from a VM over a physical interface without v6 installed on the physical interface. I have seen no issues on any Windows XP system on which I have enabled v6.
ReplyDeleteAlso, check out gogo6 (http://www.gogo6.com/). Lots of v6 fans there.
I now have Windows 7 64-bit, and my router gives me the choice of a IPv4 or IPv6, but I'm a little uneasy about messing with it, as there is so much going on with Win 7 that I feel like a sys admin.
ReplyDeleteTo say Windows 7 is unreliable is an understatement: check out my Win 7 Reliability History chart: http://yfrog.com/bc7bxp, for a larger view (or maybe smaller) try this: http://a.yfrog.com/img408/4359/7bx.png. I uploaded the screen shot to a Twitter photo site.
That was produced using my Toshiba X505-860 which I got as a desktop replacement a month or two back (well, I still have the desktop PC too. Never can have enough PC's... I guess). It weighs nearly 12 lbs, lives on a table on wheels, not at all portable but I like it a lot better than its predecessor, my Toshiba Satellite L25.