IPv6

[Caren Litvanyi]

The 2621 will do v6.  I'd need to compare its performance capabilities
with your needed average packet-per-second rate, though.  I bet it
is not able to handle much, but I am not sure.
The question is, who do you want to talk to?  If you literally only
want *within* a lab, no router is needed.  We create a vlan for you,
and you play in that isolated vlan sandbox.  The switches won't care.
When you want to test v6 AG (or any other app), with another site,
well, then we have some planning and work to do.  Getting from here
to there is what requires infrastructure upgrades, or, for the short-
term, engineering around the problem in one of several ways.
Also, don't forget infrastructure issues like supporting v6 in DNS.
Thanks,
Caren



On Tue, 13 Apr 2004, Robert Olson wrote:

> 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
> 
>