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REANNZ and Verizon Business held a joint information and training session on IPv6.
The session focused on both organisation's real-life experiences in implementing IPv6 and discovering some of the advantages above and beyond the headline cry of "more addresses".
David Brownlie, Technical Specialist at REANNZ's covered practical, network-level and admin-relevant insights and tips. Greg Phillips, Head of Solutions, ANZ Verizon Business
Presentations:
The session was very popular with Members - so much so that the REANNZ MCU was maxed out with those joining from desktop clients finding themselves tussling for entry if their connection dropped! A big group at AUT was joined with several staff at each of Otago, AgResearch, REANNZ and desktop users from Massey, Auckland, Christchurch, Kristin School and Otago. 11 streaming session were also initiated.
Contact: Any enquires or questions for Verizon can be directed to: Stacey McGoldrick, Country Manager New Zealand, Verizon Business,+ 64 9 306 8911, stacey.mcgoldrick@nz.verizonbusiness.com
Hardware support for IPv6
For the Junipers this is all software based, both routing and firewall. This is not ideal. Progress is being made towards IPv6 hardware support. Currently REANNZ is running packet-based filterlist firewalling on IPv6. Dedicated Juniper hardware firewalls do support IPv6 in hardware if you have the money.
Cisco support for IPv6 still pretty thin - 6500s only just getting feature set support. Other boxes only have functionality released in the last few days! In reality the
Checkpoint firewalls don't support IPv6 in a cluster / load-sharing environment.
Internet2 WG on IPv6
This group is focusing on getting a groundswell towards implementing IPv6 not on a $ ROI but on a "green" perspective. This effort is trying to avoid organiastions relying on carrier-grade NAT (which has negative lock in issues).
This group is also trying to flavour it as "adoption" vs "migration" approach.
Applications
Vista has v6 enabled by default and will try to tunnel over v6 before trying native v4. This can have a massive response impact, either a 30second timeout or by using a very poor public tunnel. Mail is an easy safe bet to start with. By default Massey has enabled ipv6.massey.ac.nz but not its default website.
Commodity ISPs are very thin on the ground in terms of providing an IPv6 service.
Address space
APNIC is giving out IPv6 address blocks but REANNZ also has a large block for Members.
multicasting
Members should consider IPv4 multicasting and not just wait for IPv6 multicasting. KAREN right now supports only IPv4 mutlicasting - IPv6 might happen before KAREN refresh, but this is resource dependent. The current IPTV trial on KAREN use IPv4 multicasting
IPv6 Video Conferencing
REANNZ has enabled our HD video conferencing unit for IPv6 sessions. We would be very interested in testing HD video conferencing with any KAREN members that have an IPv6 enabled VC endpoint.