IPv6 Discussion

Carlhead said:
UUNET has just finished reinvesting in South Africa and has replaced most of their hardware, and upgraded all of their routers software. They should be fully IPv6 compliant.
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I think i need to give this thread of mine a kick in the pants again...

Been doing some more research - and also had a chat with Vortexia the admin from irc.ac.za.

As i was somewhat aware - UCT has an established piece of IPv6 infrastructure and so does Rhodes U... seems all the rest of the universities are lagging horribly behind in implementation. As far as i'm concerned - universities are the ideal playing fields for these sort of things. Hundereds and thousands of young dynamic people ready to try new things, etc, etc, etc....

Neway - back to the practicle things.

UUNET does indeed provide IPv6 connections - just emailed one of their people today. They appear to be the best connected in terms of IPv6 links back to the rest of the world. Only hurdle is the you need static IP on your side so that you can innitiate the tunnel link into their IPv6 network - pity.
I wonder if they have any plans to sell IPv6 ADSL when they launch their ADSL again - i know i would be interested in that.

In the meantime - some now solutions:
2 IPv6 VPN gateways that were recommended by Vortexia:
www.xs26.net More of a community project by the looks of things but with a point of presence in SA - UCT in fact... surprise surprise. Looks promising but i haven't tried it yet.
http://www.hexago.com VERY COOL!! Download their little VPN client and run it on your machine and bamm you're on IPv6!! And a free registration with name and email addy and you get your very own STATIC ip address on IPv6 :D Apparently you can also sign up for an account that would give you an entire netblock and you just get your IPv6 router to tunnel to their server.

Only catch - your OS has to support IPv6 which from a Windoz point of veiw is only really XP and up (2k at a push).... guess who's playing with his new toy tonight :) lol

[edit] and while i'm on a roll :D you can download this plugin for firefox that shows you the IP address of the server you're connected to... and shows you in a really nice green colour when you connected via IPv6 [/edit]
 
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Ok here is some more interesting information.

Have a look @ http://www.sixxs.net/tools/grh/dfp/all/?country=za

You will notice there are ipv6 connections that connect ipv6 networks from the following networks in south africa:

1. 2001:528::/32 TELKOMSAV6 Telkom SA Ltd.
2. 2001:548::/32 TENET-IPV6-1 UNINET Project - Tertiary Education Network (wireless ISP to my knowledge in CT)
3. 2001:588::/32 UU-IPV6-1-ZA UUNET Internet Africa
4. 2001:18b0::/32 ISNET-V6-NET The Internet Solution
5. 2001:4200::/32 TENET-IPV6-1 Tertiary Education Network (all the Universities in SA connect to this backbone)

Then there are a few more that seems broken. To me though, this says almost all the most important networks in SA already have IPv6 support of some sort, how much of it being used no one knows.



As for free tunnel providers:
www.xs26.net <-- Very very nice to have a local pop, to bad its a slep for dynamic ips

http://www.hexago.com <-- used to be freenet6.net, however their tunnel works awesome for both dynamic ips and having a ipv6 network at home so that ever pc has its own unique ipv6 ip on the net, too bad lag to them over adsl really sucks
 
Tinuva said:
Have a look @ http://www.sixxs.net/tools/grh/dfp/all/?country=za
You will notice there are ipv6 connections that connect ipv6 networks from the following networks in south africa:

1. 2001:528::/32 TELKOMSAV6 Telkom SA Ltd.
2. 2001:548::/32 TENET-IPV6-1 UNINET Project - Tertiary Education Network (wireless ISP to my knowledge in CT)
3. 2001:588::/32 UU-IPV6-1-ZA UUNET Internet Africa
4. 2001:18b0::/32 ISNET-V6-NET The Internet Solution
5. 2001:4200::/32 TENET-IPV6-1 Tertiary Education Network (all the Universities in SA connect to this backbone)
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Yeah i found a similar list somewhere else - UNINET and TENET are the same people. And UUNET has at least 6 different routes to IPv6 compared with one or two for most of the others... redundency - i like :D
 
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