Re: Only 5x IPv4 /8 remaining at IANA

[Zaid Ali <zaid () zaidali com>]

If you run Cisco ACE load balancers and start with your web server farm I
can assure you that you will be stuck because ACE loaad balancers do not
support v6 and don't plan to until mid next year and not without a new
card/cost. If you run ACE in non routed mode then you a doubly stuck because
you can't even by bypass the loadbalancer to reach one of your webservers
since the ACE doesn't pass v6 traffic! So I agree, don't start there instead
get the corporate LAN, learn from it then move onto your production facing
networks. Also get white listed for Google NS so you can see more user
traffic.

Zaid


On 10/19/10 11:30 AM, "Franck Martin" <franck () genius com> wrote:

> No, no....
>
> Putting your servers on IPv6 is a major task. Load balancers, proprietary
> code, log analysis, database records... all that needs to be reviewed to see
> if it is compatible with IPv6 (and a few equipments need recent upgrades if
> even they can do IPv6 today).
>
> Putting your client machines (ie internal network) to IPv6 is relatively easy.
> Enable IPv6 on the border router, you don't need failover (can built it later)
> as anyhow the clients will failover to IPv4 if IPv6 fails... So as failover is
> not needed you can have a separate simple IPv6 network infrastructure on top
> of your IPv4 Infrastructure.
>
> So my advocacy, is get your client (I'm not talking about customers here, but
> client as client/server) machines on IPv6, get your engineers, support
> staff,.. to be familiar with IPv6, then all together you can better understand
> how to migrate your servers infrastructure to IPv6 (and your customers to IPv6
> if you are an ISP).
>
> If you do that, you will see migration to IPv6 is made much easier, and much
> faster.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Owen DeLong" <owen () delong com>
> To: "Franck Martin" <franck () genius com>
> Cc: "Jonas Frey (Probe Networks)" <jf () probe-networks de>, "Jeffrey Lyon"
> <jeffrey.lyon () blacklotus net>, "NANOG list" <nanog () nanog org>
> Sent: Tuesday, 19 October, 2010 8:55:56 PM
> Subject: Re: Only 5x IPv4 /8 remaining at IANA
>
> Servers work just fine over tunnels if necessary too.
>
> Get your public-facing content and services on IPv6 as fast as possible.
> Make IPv6 available to your customers as quickly as possible too.
>
> Finally, your internal IT resources (other than your support department(s))
> can
> probably wait a little while.
>
> Owen
>
> On Oct 18, 2010, at 1:41 PM, Franck Martin wrote: