Dutch experience with fixed IPv6 Broadband

1. IPv6 in the access layer
Status update
Marco Hogewoning
marco@xs4all.net
Irish IPv6 Summit - May 19th 2010, Dublin

2. Who are we ?
• One of the oldest Dutch service providers
• Established May 1st 1993
• 100% daughter of KPN NV since 1998
• Approximately 300k DSL subscribers
• Related services: homepage, email
• Hosting services, colocation
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3. History of IPv6
6bone pTLA 3FFE:8280::/28 allocated to XS4ALL-NL
Bob Fink fink@es.net
Tue, 02 Oct 2001 12:30:03 -0700
XS4ALL-NL in The Netherlands has been allocated pTLA 3FFE:8280::/28 having
finished its 2-week review period.
<http://whois.6bone.net/cgi-bin/whois?XS4ALL-NL>
Note that it will take a short while for their pTLA inet6num entry to
appear in the 6bone registry as they have to create it themselves. However,
their registration is listed on:
<http://www.6bone.net/6bone_pTLA_list.html>
To create a reverse DNS registration for pTLAs, please send the prefix
allocated above, and a list of at least two authoritative nameservers, to
either bmanning@isi.edu or hostmaster@ep.net.
Thanks,
Bob
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4. Business case
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5. Why
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6. What do we sell ?
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7. So we must prevent this:
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8. How
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9. Technical setup
• PPPoA/PPPoE
• Telco network is agnostic towards NCP
• BRAS: Juniper E320
• Both ATM and ethernet (VPLS) transport
• Single session, dual stack
• IPCP & IPv6CP
• DHCPv6 PD (JUNOSe built-in)
• DNS resolvers via DHCPv6
• PPP interface is link local only
• All customers are assigned a static /48
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10. Experiences so far
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11. CPE
• Most are still beta
• Early deployment if you are lucky
• AVM, Draytek, Cisco, Juniper, Technicolor
• Coming: Zyxel, Iskratel
• Common issues
• DUID not persistent because of timestamp
• UI issues
• Dependency on RA or SLAAC on WAN
• PPPoE more popular
• See RIPE-60 archives for more detail
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12. Provisioning
• Basics are done
• Database can support IPv6
• Most of the tooling ignores IPv6
• Time consuming and painstaking process
• What do we need ?
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13. Services
• Apache 1.3 -> 2.2
• custom modules
• Hosting contains loads of unknowns
• Sendmail needs some work
• *.ipv6.xs4all.nl poses challenges for SSL
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14. Loadbalancers
• Brocade serveriron (wsm6-ssl) on 11.0.0
• No feature parity
• limited to 48 bits and broken
• New firmware released last week (11.0.0e)
• Still contains the bug
• Waiting for ADX demo equipment
• Should be 128 bits clean
• Promises feature parity
• Looking at alternatives
• A10
• F5
• ...?
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15. Pilot
• 300+ connected
• Mailing list had high volume for a few weeks
then slowed down
• Most people are happy
• CPE bugs seem a natural thing
• Race condition leads to IPv6 only connection
• Wish list:
• Reverse DNS
• Reverse DNS
• Reverse DNS
• More content
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16. A word of advice
Start now !
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17. Cooperate
• Use the resources at hand
• Mailing list like
• ipv6-wg@ripe.net
• ipv6-ops@lists.cluenet.de
• IETF v6ops
• Specialized websites and fora
• These kind of meetings
• Make yourself heard !
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