IPv6

[Ivan R. Judson]

Yeah, I meant a two phase approach at first:

1) IPv6 capability to the desktop (including but not limited to multicast)
to get porting done
2) IPv6 as a production capacity to the desktop (including but not limited
to multicast)

We can probably satiate some fraction of the users with #1, and make the
IPv6 people happy with it, but long term we are going to need #2 to be able
to support it and fix bugs, etc.

It seems like we should be pricing forklifts, no?

-Ivan 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Caren Litvanyi [mailto:litvanyi at mcs.anl.gov] 
> Sent: Tuesday, April 13, 2004 4:52 PM
> To: Ivan R. Judson
> Cc: 'Remy Evard'; ag-dev at mcs.anl.gov
> Subject: Re: IPv6
> 
> That's IPv6 multicast?
> Yup, IPv6 folks would love it.
> And I've been a little embarrassed that coutries like Poland support
> v6 multicast and we don't...  There's apparently apps 
> actually being used in Europe, but I don't know much about 
> them, if they are AG-similar.
> Supporting it across the network here at ANL is a problem; 
> I'd probably drag a vlan all the way up to MREN in Chicago 
> and support it there.
> It takes a pretty big forklift upgrade to our divisional and 
> lab-border infrastructure to support IPv6 and v6 multicast.
> You may have been only talking code dev, but the word 
> "network" was in there... ;-) Thanks, Caren
> 
> On Tue, 13 Apr 2004, Ivan R. Judson wrote:
> 
> > Hey,
> > 
> > Can we talk about IPv6?  We've been getting an increasing number of 
> > requests for it, but we have no way to make sure it works, 
> or test it.
> > 
> > We'd really like to make this possible. Since the AG is 
> being pursued 
> > as the killer app that makes IPv6 desirable, the IPv6 folks 
> would love 
> > us if we enabled it for them to blow up their networks using the AG.
> > 
> > --Ivan
> 
>