Internet2 IPv6 Update

Heather Boyles, heather@internet2.edu APAN IPv6 Task Force2007-January-23

Outline

• Internet2 network infrastructure v6 status

• IPv6 activities

Internet2 network infrastructure• Abilene dual-stack IPv6 network continues to perform well

• Transition Abilene layer3 network to new Internet2 network infrastructure

• Using same Juniper T640 routers, still running dual stack v4/v6

Policy: Interconnection with other networks• Will continue to peer with IPv6 commercial networks– With new Internet2 network, will also now peer with IPv4 commercial networks

• No transit between non-US networks and commercial IPv6 network peers – Had been providing transit between v6 networks (including commercial)

– Stopped providing transit to commercial v6 peers – not their usual policy

IPv6 Activities

• Internet2 IPv6 Working Group– Refocusing from campus deployment effort to…..

– Working with middleware and applications working groups as resource

• Internet2 IPv6 Hands-on Workshops– Lesser in frequency, but still being held by request

– Next one in April: Merit (Michigan state network) hosting: IPv6 Multicast Hands-on Workshop

IPv6 Activities

• Performance tools– NDT now supports IPv6– http://e2epi.internet2.edu/ndt/– Part of perfSONAR architecture

Pointers

• IPv6 working grouphttp://ipv6.internet2.edu/

• Abilene NOC IPv6 Informationhttp://www.abilene.iu.edu/abilene/maps--documentation.html

• Presentation and Exercises from IPv6 Multicast Workshop http://multicast.internet2.edu/workshops/albuquerque-IPv6/