[afnog] .KE now on v6

[Vincent Ngundi]

Hi All,

Lucy had requested me to post a short case study of how we deployed  
IPv6 at KENIC...which I'm glad to do:

In a nutshell;

Pre-requisites (Equipment)
Equipment need to be IPv6 ready:
	* depending on the equipment, memory upgrades may be necessary
	* routers require an IOS that can talk v6
	** Amount of time and cost depends on the kind (and number)  
equipment one has.

	* servers/workstations need to be running an OS that supports IPv6.  
Most operating systems (~4-5 years old) support v6.

Acquiring IPv6 Space
Depends on the kind of organisation. In the AfriNIC region, we have  
two kinds of allocation/assignment.
	* PA space for LIR's (http://www.afrinic.net/docs/policies/afpol- 
v6200407-000.htm) and
	* PI space for end-sites (http://www.afrinic.net/docs/policies/afpol- 
v6200701.htm)

Transit
You need to discuss this with your upstream provider as part of the  
planning process. If they don't provide IPv6 transit, then you can  
discuss with them the possibility of creating a tunnel to their  
upstream (the upstream of your upstream). You might also consider  
directly discussing with the upstream of your upstream for the same.  
Jordi can also assist in creating a tunnel to third party networks,  
for instance to the OCCAID network (http://www.occaid.org/).

HowTo
* The AfriNIC IPv6 workshop material (http://www.afrinic.net/training/ 
index.htm#materials) provides useful documentation on deployment of  
IPv6.

* In addition, the afripv6-discuss mail exploder (https:// 
lists.afrinic.net/mailman/listinfo.cgi/afripv6-discuss) is a valuable  
resource. I urge anyone planning to deploy v6 to join this and other  
similar lists - the archives contain useful discussions.

Remarks
The entire process greatly depends on the kind and number of  
equipment on ones' network. The idea is start the planning process as  
soon as possible.

This might not be a very comprehensive report but we are readily  
available to respond to more direct questions and to assist where we  
can.

Regards,

-Vincent

On Sep 8, 2007, at 7:30 PM, Lucy Lynch wrote:

> On Sat, 8 Sep 2007, Vincent Ngundi wrote:
>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> We are now running IPv6 (dual stack) on our network. We really  
>> thank all those who helped us during deployment....Jordi, Cesar et  
>> al....
>>
>> $ traceroute6 www.afrinic.net
>> traceroute6 to www.afrinic.net (2001:42d0::200:80:1) from  
>> 2001:43f8:10:50:206:5bff:fe8e:b0d2, 64 hops max, 12 byte packets
>> 1  2001:43f8:10:50::1  1.274 ms  1.234 ms  1.178 ms
>> 2  2001:43f8:10:1::1  13.880 ms  15.226 ms  12.216 ms
>> 3  2001:4238:1:2::1  21.434 ms  15.402 ms  18.794 ms
>> 4  2001:4238:1:1::5  28.508 ms  17.471 ms  27.531 ms
>> 5  2001:4238:1:1::1  16.525 ms  17.394 ms  29.418 ms
>> 6  bbr01-tu100.lndn01.occaid.net  600.435 ms  594.004 ms  588.240 ms
>> 7  * * *
>> 8  * * *
>> 9  * * *
>> 10  ipv6gw-isc.afrinic.net  939.105 ms  941.255 ms  948.822 ms
>> 11  www.afrinic.net  943.580 ms  944.750 ms  935.581 ms
>
> Vincent -
>
> Congratulations! Any chance of you posting a short case study of the
> steps you went through to get here? You're at the front of a moving  
> train,
> but everyone will need to climb on board sometime soon.
>
> Nice effort.
>
> - Lucy
>
>
>> Regards,
>>
>> -Vincent
>>
>> --
>> KeNIC - The Kenya Network Information Center
>> http://www.kenic.or.ke
>>
>>
>>
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