[6bone] Eastcoast tunnelbrokers..

[Jeroen Massar]

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Haesu [mailto:haesu@towardex.com] wrote:

> We run  rather a large test/sandbox network where we give out 
> ipv6 transit to users for free (this is a nonprofit network used for 
> education and development purposes).

#define large aka number of endsites, avg. traffic etc.
Afaik any if not all of the TB's give out transit for free btw.

> B/c it's all nonprofit, we don't have funding to afford 
> commercial ipv6 connectivity, in which many of of native
> ipv6 services out there are offered commercially..

SixXS is a complete non-profit operation too btw, the
ISP's participating make sure they provide commercial
grade IPv6 connectivity.

It all depends on what you need and where apparently.

> We currently receive full bgp4+ feed from he.net's 
> tunnelbroker which is great..
> And the latency from our nonprofit net's san francisco POP to 
> he.net's tunnel broker router is only 4miliseconds which is
> very good connectivity.
> 
> The problem is, a lot of east coast users get really bad 
> pingtime as everything has to route out via SFO. So we are
> just looking for anyone who run an ipv6 network in the east
> who could give us bgp4+ feed over a tunnel.

If I where you, I would first get myself a TLA from ARIN.
Then go to an IX where IPv6 is present or start doing native
peerings with other ISP's. Currently most ISP's will give
transit for free, thus that is a nobrainer.

Apparently you give out /120's to endusers, how can they
experiment correctly with such amount of space? The whole
idea of IPv6 was that endsites get a *lot* of address space
so that they autoconfigure anything on their network links
ranging from their PC to their refridgerator to their PS2's
and xboxes. Give your users /48's, that's the policy.

But that is my personal opinion :)

Greets,
 Jeroen

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