[lacnog] Fwd: [afripv6-discuss] IPv6 rollout…

[Carlos M. martinez]

Aca encontre algo de información adicional, incluyendo el nombre de la 
Universidad involucrada:

http://mybroadband.co.za/news/internet/56241-shocking-ipv6-revelation-in-south-africa.html

s2

Carlos

On 7/31/12 3:19 PM, Alejandro Acosta wrote:
> Hola,
>    Muy interesante, mantennos informados :)
>    Me gustaría ver las gráficas y tener más detalles de lo que
> hicieron. Ciertamente no es nuevo pero siempre me parece gustaría
> saber más, además sobre Africa e IPv6 no he escuchado mucho.
>
> Saludos y gracias,
>
> Alejandro,
>
> On 7/31/12, Carlos M. Martinez <carlosm3011 en gmail.com> wrote:
>> FYI,
>>
>> me parece una experiencia interesante muy bien descripta por nuestros
>> colegas de Africa.
>>
>> s2
>>
>> Carlos
>>
>>
>> -------- Original Message --------
>> Subject: 	[afripv6-discuss] IPv6 rollout…
>> Date: 	Tue, 31 Jul 2012 09:08:29 +0200
>> From: 	Andrew Alston <alston.networks en gmail.com>
>> Reply-To: 	IPv6 in Africa <afripv6-discuss en afrinic.net>
>> To: 	afripv6-discuss en afrinic.net
>>
>>
>>
>> Hi Guys,
>>
>> So, while i'll be sending out a lot more data soon, with a lot more
>> information on exactly what we did and how we did it etc, I thought  I would
>> share some news that I for one found rather exciting.
>>
>> Yesterday evening starting at around 7pm one of the South African
>> universities turned up IPv6, in a fairly consistent manner.  Now, I'm not
>> talking about turning up IPv6 on a few servers, I'm talking about
>> integrating it into every part of their network.  By 2:30am this morning it
>> was running on all their proxy servers, all their residence networks, the
>> wireless networks, all the lab PC's and a good portion of the staff network.
>>   The topology used was identical to that of the IPv4, and as the rest of the
>> network is migrated to the new IPv4 topology V6 will be implemented on
>> everything in dual stack along side that as well.
>>
>> Now, here is where things get interesting, another network dual stacked is
>> no real news, so lets talk about traffic levels.
>>
>> The University in question is now running anywhere between 30 to 50 percent
>> of its internet traffic on IPv6, and its working flawlessly so far.  So
>> flawlessly infact that even with Apple's default implementation of Happy
>> Eyeballs that tests RTT and defaults to v4 if the v6 latency is higher, the
>> apples we tested on running lion and mountain lion were still choosing ipv6
>> most of the time.
>>
>> I am not going to say this little rollout has been easy though, we had to
>> rearchitecture the entire network (that had to happen anyway for various
>> reasons), and we added the v6 as part of that project.  It would not have
>> been possible to do that without first getting our hands on another /15
>> worth of IPv4 space though to allow that rearchitecturing to happen
>> properly.
>>
>> As I said though, in coming days we'll write up what we did with a lot more
>> detail and send through some graphs and other information, I just had to
>> share the fact that we're seeing at points half the traffic on a standard
>> university coming in from the internet over ipv6!
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Andrew Alston
>> Network Consultant_______________________________________________
>> afripv6-discuss mailing list
>> afripv6-discuss en afrinic.net
>> https://lists.afrinic.net/mailman/listinfo.cgi/afripv6-discuss
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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