[plug] PLUG: Talk on IPv6 in March

[Tim White]

Thanks for sharing your understanding Adrian.

Anyone know similar information about NBN Satellite (The Optus satellite 
that links to Kalgoorlie I believe)
Not using iinet for NBN Satellite at the moment, but am interested to 
know if we'll ever see IPv6 on interim satellite or if there are 
technical difficulties.

Tim

On 04/04/13 17:19, Adrian Woodley wrote:
> My understanding is that iiNet's ADSL hardware lacks IPv6 support.
>
> Internode are still using the PPPoE model, which transports the PPP 
> session back to a BBA/BRAS in the core network. The BBA/BRAS handles 
> IPv6 over PPP, and all the DSLAM hardware sees is a stream of ethernet 
> packets.
>
> iiNet's IPoDSL relies on the DSLAM hardware to hand out IP addresses 
> to clients, from within the exchange. This hardware doesn't yet have 
> IPv6 support, hence the need to use 6RD.
>
> I'm not intimately familiar with iiNet's current deployment, but it 
> may be possible to drop an IPv6 router into each exchange which is 
> able to hand out IPv6 prefixes to clients, over DSL. This model hasn't 
> been deployed in Australia yet, so would be new to both iiNet and 
> Internode. I'm not sure if they're even looking into it at this stage 
> or not.
>
> Personally, I'd like to see them deploy a proper IPv6 Broker service. 
> This could allow the static assignment of prefixes to individual 
> accounts, removing the problem of network prefixes changing as IPv4 
> addresses change (on re-connection). Unfortunately, this would be a 
> more complex solution from a CPE perspective, although there exist 
> good tunnel clients for all the major OSs. As far as over-heads are 
> concerned, the packet structure is the same and the hardware 
> infrastructure would be very similar, so performance is likely to be 
> comparable to the existing 6RD service. Again, I don't believe they're 
> actually looking into this yet.
>
> Adrian
>
> On 03/04/13 15:58, James Henstridge wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 8:09 AM, Tim White <weirdit at gmail.com 
>> <mailto:weirdit at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>>     And why shouldn't it apply to the whole iinet/internode family?
>>
>> Because iiNet hasn't merged the two companies' plans yet.  For now, 
>> the iiNet branded plans do not include IPv6.
>>
>> Presumably it'll become generally available when the operations are 
>> fully integrated, but there isn't any public time frame for that.  If 
>> you can't wait, follow Adrian's advice.
>>
>> James.
>>
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