Intro

With the upcoming Ipocalypse it seems like time to start discussing IPv6 in detail. Although we previously covered IPv6 in Show 21 — IPv6 for the Win! Part 1 and Show 21 — IPv6 for the Win! Part 2 we think that IPv6 is big enough to have another shot.

Guests

• Shivlu Jain http://www.mplsvpn.info | Twitter: @shivlu
• ruhann du plessishttp://routing-bits.com | Twitter : @routingbits
• Kurt Bales, Eintellego www.network-janitor.net | Twitter: @networkjanitor
• Skeeve Stevens , Eintellego www.eintellego.net | Twitter: @skeevework

Matters At Hand

Boche.Net — VMware and jumbo frames

• Boche.net – Jumbo Frames Comparison Testing with IP Storage and vMotion

IPv6 — It’s almost here

• public IPv6 allocation and how the RIRs will respond.
• https://www.arin.net/knowledge/rirs/ARINcountries.html
• Shivlu points out that 6RD is going to be the most popular choice.
• http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5569
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPv6_rapid_deployment
• http://www.renesys.com/blog/2011/01/egypt-leaves-the-internet.shtml
• cablemap.info shows a global map withthe undersea cables around the globe.
• http://revk.www.me.uk/2011/01/expert.html Blog post suggesting that the ARIN is working up a media event for the last of the IPv4 addresses.

Egypt blocking off the Internet

• Observations, comments. Statements of the obvious.
• Skeeve points out that at recent Internet conference Egypt wants to be able to tap all the backbone cables.
• global prefix and it’s failure for carrier dependent deploymnt

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