Connection request

[Janos Mohacsi]

On Wed, 3 Dec 1997, Lin Xia wrote:

> Date: Wed, 03 Dec 1997 23:34:17 -0800
> From: Lin Xia <lxia@eecs.wsu.edu>
> To: 6bone@ISI.EDU
> Subject: Connection request
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I am a graduate student in Computer Science at Washington
> State University. We are interested in connecting to the
> 6bone to setup a testbed to play with IPv6 and test Gigabit
> ethernet over IPv6. We now have several Pentium PCs running
> Linux. According to the 6bone diagram, I guess the closest
> tunnel endpoint for us is University of Washington. But how
> can I get the connection? And what should I use as the ASN
> field in order to calculate the RFC1897 testing address?

Forget the RFC1897. New addressing scheme (Aggregation-based Unicast test
address) is being used to connect to 6bone (See
http://www.6bone.net/6bone_hookup.html). Find a backbone site or an
apropiate transit site to connect. 

Cheers,
	Janos Mohacsi