Sprintlink IPv6 rob rockell

Goals play Value-Add for customers and others –free –not under SLA Test Implementations, think about problems

Timing Started 4Q 1997 –(3ffe:2900::/24) 4Q 1998: –about 10 peers, about 5 customers 1Q 2000: –28 peers, over 50 downstream customers

Plans for IPv6 NOW –All peer/cust connex tunneled –All equipment old, no redundancy FUTURE –Get to exchanges somehow, provide for native customer peering –Deploy good stable IGP, and provide redundant services (DNS, etc...)

Constraints Router Vendor Code: –unstable and lacking support: Dynamic IGP BGP functionality Next-header functionality Applications: –Need more apps. no traffic on 6bone (barely).

Constraints Protocol: –Multi-homing? –Address allocation, auto(re)-configuration, routing table scalability.