From: James (james@towardex.com)
Date: Sun Sep 19 2004 - 18:11:52 GMT-3
On Sun, Sep 19, 2004 at 01:51:24PM -0700, Joseph D. Phillips wrote:
> We just have to memorize this:
>
> http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/product/software/ios123/123cgcr/ipv6_r/ipv6book.pdf
>
> It's only 788 pages. Should be no problem.
>
> Seriously, though, the paucity of discussion on this topic is unusual.
>
> What are we supposed to know by 1/1/2005?
>
> Or whenever...
IPv6 is not any different than IPv4 with exception of few proto related
cosmetic changes such as anycast, etc, etc. As far as inter-routing goes
its not any different in conceptual thoughts.
You do need to get some idea of how the subnetting and addressing
types work, which there is a good documentation here:
There are lots of IPv6 addresses to spare today and there are few
tunnel brokers / tunnel providers who can provide anyone with a tunnel
and live BGP session to setup IPv6. You will then need to know how to
setup MP-BGP for ipv6-unicast and do basic ipv6 static routing and
stuff -- if you have multiple routers, learn about v6 isis or ospfv3
as appropriate. One can easily assign one of the cisco routers in
your rack with a live public IP to terminate the ipv6-in-ipv4 tunnel
and get a /48 v6 delegation to lab it up with thru the entire rack.
If you have strong conceptual knowledge in ipv4 routing (IGP, BGP), you
should not find problems quickly picking up IPv6 routing.
There are few tunnel brokers who also can throw in a BGP feed for enduser
to play with, such as hurrican electric tunnelbroker (www.tunnelbroker.net).
I myself also run a relatively large 6bone pTLA network providing free
experimental transit to several ASN's (some tunnels, some native), if
anyone is also interested.
HTH,
-J
-- James Jun TowardEX Technologies, Inc. Technical Lead Network Design, Consulting, IT Outsourcing james@towardex.com Boston-based Colocation & Bandwidth Services cell: 1(978)-394-2867 web: http://www.towardex.com , noc: www.twdx.net
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