[6bone] Corporation wishing to get connected to the new v6 Internet

[Gert Doering]

Hi,

On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 05:24:32PM -0400, Matt.Carpenter@alticor.com wrote:
> It is appearing that production IPv6 networks are currently mostly 
> disparate, funnels to the IPv4 Internet.  Is that correct?  

Partly, but this is improving.

> And are there 
> a few that are big enough that would warrant creating tunnels to them 
> specifically so as to bring them together (eg. if I'm connected to the 
> he.net's network, also connecting to an IPv6 network in Asia (or 
> someplace) with a huge presence)?  Or are they pretty much their own 
> little world?

Don't put up tunnels to other continents.  Find someone who has good
connectivity there, and put up a tunnel to them (if tunnels are 
unavoidable).

Much of the current IPv6 routing problems come from tunnels that are
just *much* too long (networkwise).

Gert Doering
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