Global Crossing Deploys IPv6 in Global Network

[merriam]

Global Crossing claims they now support native IPv6 on their network.

http://www.globalcrossing.com/xml/news/2005/october/10.xml

There are probably a zillion issues here but it seems if Global Crossing is on your network then that means you, and we, now have native IPv6 access. Can you find out if that is true?

I guess for that to work you will need to give us one or more IPv6 addresses in addition to our IPv4 address.

Thanks.
Bill

[matta]

I will definitely look into this, we do have direct access to Global Crossing.

Although by going through an IPv6 tunnel broker you can always attain your IPv6 address space. ie. http://ipv6.he.net.

[merriam]

Matt,

I am already using HE for a tunnel. The problem is they are in California and I am not. My tunnel traffic has to travel across the country and back. It is never very fast. So.... I have wanted native access. Hopefully the Global Crossing thing will get everybody else underway and the US will FINALLY start using IPv6.

Bill

[gioeleb]

[QUOTE=matta]I will definitely look into this, we do have direct access to Global Crossing.
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Can you estimate when we will have native IPv6?

[merriam]

Matt,

http://www.occaid.org/news-sixxs-ord.php

OCCAID is now has a data center in Atlanta. The traceroute shows it is within a millisecond of you, accessed through Atlantaix. Using that datacenter SixXS allows you to set up a 6to4 tunnel for IPv6 access. Check out:

usatl01.sixxs.net

If Global Crossing native IPv6 access doesn't work please check out setting up a tunnel to SixXs. It is free and should be VERY fast. They give you a /48 address block so you would have a gazillion addresses available.

Thanks for the good work, Matt!

Bill

[merriam]

I successfully set up a 6over4 tunnel with sixxs. It took a few days to get all the approvals. It has excellent ping times.

They gave me a /48 address range. If I make /64 subnets that gives me 32K subnets. I made a private tunnel to my house in Gainesville, FL (over Bellsouth DSL) and routed one of those subnets there. It is much faster than HE was from my house.

I would give other Unixshell customers subnets but I think I would be charged for the bandwidth. If Matt wanted to donate a VM (and its bandwidth) to the cause we could move my tunnel there, or set up another one, and everyone could be using IPv6 while Matt figures out if Global Crossing will work.

Of course, everybody could just set up their own tunnel.

Bill

[matta]

I'm actually looking at configuring it on the router, it supports tunneling and IPv6. It needs to be planned out very carefully and i'm still trying to figure out the paperwork they need :)

The other part is then adding support to our tools for IPv6.

[gioeleb]

[QUOTE=matta]I'm actually looking at configuring it on the router, it supports tunneling and IPv6.[/QUOTE]
Why going with tunneling when you have Global Crossing native IPv6 at hand? Does it cost much?

[rektide]

I'd be intersted in an update on this topic.

[StoryInMemo]

Very interested in the native IPv6 details.