Re: IPv6 traffic distribution

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Le 29 juil. 2011 à 15:51, Joel Jaeggli a écrit :

> 
> On Jul 29, 2011, at 9:39 AM, Rémi Després wrote:
> 
>> 
>> Le 28 juil. 2011 à 08:07, Michel Py a écrit :
>> 
>>> James,
>>> 
>>> If I remember correctly, you mentioned a bit ago that your job required
>>> you had native IPv6 at home. 
>>> 
>>> Question: Does an ISP providing you IPv6 out of the CPE box (meaning,
>>> without any software other than dual-stack on the hosts) qualify as
>>> native IPv6 if, behind the scenes, they use a tunnel broker, or 6rd?
>> 
>> Facts are AFAIK that:
>> - Tunnel brokers need host cooperation. They can't be used behind the scene by ISP's.
>> - 6rd can indeed be used behind the scene by ISP's, without users making the difference with native IPv6 routing in ISP networks. This has been proven on a large scale over 3.5 years. 
> 
> I would suspect that there's nothing that prevents an isp running it's own tunnel broker and a compliant cpe from automating that process in much the same way that 6rd in free required control over the firmware.

Fair enough, that's a technical possibility.

> the business case for doing so seems like an exercise for the reader.

Exactly, I doubt any ISP would do that, in view of the compared simplicity of 6rd.
If that would be used, customers would have native prefixes for which they ignore that ISP-network traversal has bee tunneled.

Regards,
RD
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