Ironic given the recent press announcements by Airespace, which seemed to have jumped the gun a little ;) First fully IPv6-compatible WLAN kit available - October 27, 2004, 11:40 BST - Airespace has become the first WLAN OEM to announce support for the IPv6 protocol in its products - http://news.zdnet.co.uk/communications/networks/0,39020345,39171566,00.htm Thanks for all the work on this though - much appreciated! There are other real problems with companies/products like BlueSocket that do not support authentication/admission for WLAN users based on IPv6 traffic, and that have no plans to introduce such support. Tim On Wed, Nov 10, 2004 at 01:09:44PM -0500, Jeff Young wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Begin forwarded message: > > >From: Ben Crosby <ben.m.crosby@xxxxxxxxx> > >Date: November 10, 2004 12:07:08 PM EST > >To: jeffrey.s.young@xxxxxxxxxxx > >Subject: IPv6 > >Reply-To: Ben Crosby <ben.m.crosby@xxxxxxxxx> > > > >Folks, > > > > To expand on Jeff's explanation of the IPv6 status here at IETF61; > >The entire network, both wired and wireless, was designed from the > >get-go as being IPv6 capable. It also had a very real and major > >requirement to be stable in the face of hundreds of clients all at > >100% transmit power, rogue APs, and all the other problems that have > >plagued previous IETF wireless networks. The good folks at Airespace > >seemed to have a system that met this goal, and as we all can see, it > >indeed works well. > > > > However, when we asked Airespace to join us in this adventure, it > >became clear that the "intelligence" of their system worked through > >tracking IPv4 DHCP requests, and thus wouldn't work with IPv6. This > >lack of IPv6 support was nearly a show stopper, however Airespace > >jumped through some major hoops to design, implement, and deploy code > >that monitors RAs and RSs specifically to handle IPv6 for this > >network. > > > > Like most brand new code, when we deployed it, we encountered > >problems. Problems that lead to instability in ALL wireless network > >access. After several long days and nights of working on this long > >before the first attendees arrived (we've been on site since Tuesday > >2nd - Election Day ;) we decided to disable the IPv6 support on the > >wireless network, rather than risk the overall network stability. > >Airespace continues to work on the problems, and we believe that we > >have a reasonable interim solution. > > > > We have phased in a new image with limited deployment, which we will > >monitor. If we experience no problems, IPv6 will be back on the > >wireless lan, however we need to maintain the overall stability of the > >wireless network as our highest priority. > > > > For those who need IPv6 on wireless: > > > > SSID: ietf61v6 > > WEP Key: thisisav6wlan > > Hex: 746869736973617636776c616e > > > > Coverage will be available in Georgetown, Lincoln, Jefferson, Monroe, > >Military and Hemisphere. You should not associate with this wireless > >network if you need stable IPv4. This is a dedicated network with new > >AP's and a new controller. > > > > My thanks to our volunteer staff who worked to deploy this network in > >the late hours last night (and very early hours this morning) after > >the social event. > > > > For those that are inconvenienced by the loss of IPv6, I sincerely > >apologize, and remind you that native IPv6 is available at every wired > >port in the terminal room. > > > > Thanks for bearing with us, and have a good meeting! > > > > - Ben Crosby > > Alcatel / IETF61 NOC > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (Darwin) > > iD8DBQFBklluLWqnmaznXfoRAi/qAJ4nUW48fV51MGYwRdX1IOqh2OAYHQCgvyZT > nuUrX42hGaM8Xg7/fKPj1jc= > =t7zw > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > _______________________________________________ > Ietf mailing list > Ietf@xxxxxxxx > https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf -- Tim North American IPv6 Task Force Technologist Seminar More info at http://www.ipv6seminar.com/ _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf