IPv6

Robert Olson olson at mcs.anl.gov
Tue Apr 13 16:55:32 CDT 2004


We'd actually even be quite interested in ipv6 unicast...

what would it take to say get an ipv6 vlan segment in our hwlab using 
something like that 2621 router?

--bob

At 04:52 PM 4/13/2004, Caren Litvanyi wrote:
>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




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