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Commercial Products for 6RD

Hi,

I wonder if gogo6 has a plan to support 6RD(http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-despres-6rd-03) in its products?

Does anyone here knows if there's a commercial product on 6RD?

Thanks.

Tun~

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Permalink Reply by Bruce Sinclair on April 26, 2010 at 5:48pm

Hello, yes we will be supporting 6RD in the gogoSERVER's next release. We will also have a gogoCPE 6RD model which will act as a 6RD NAT to terminate the tunnel. But because of the nature of 6RD we cannot support it in Freenet6.

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Permalink Reply by Tun Tun on April 27, 2010 at 2:24am

Hi Bruce,

Cool!

This is good news. What is your schedule for next release?

We'll be interested to trial your 6RD solutions inside our network.

Thanks.

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Permalink Reply by Ahmed Abu-Abed on April 28, 2010 at 6:33am

Hi Tun
As 6rd is a form of 6to4, I highly recommend you read the "TSP Comparison" document on the different access protocols that gogo6 supports (TSP, 6rd, DS-Lite, DSTM) to decide which is best to use, see :
http://gogoware.gogo6.com/4105/documentation.asp?product_id=178

You may find out that TSP protocol is more appropriate; TSP is also the default protocol on the gogo6 client on Windows. More on it at http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5572 .

A good book on the transition protocols is "Migrating to IPv6" by Marc Blanchet .

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Permalink Reply by Mikael Lind on April 28, 2010 at 3:31pm

The comparison document has been updated to include 6RD as well. 6RD and TSP have somewhat different uses and can actually be combined to give even more flexibility when it comes to the deployment.

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Permalink Reply by Tun Tun on May 1, 2010 at 9:17am

Thank you guys..
I am getting much better understanding now.

Will come back and post more questions if I come across anything not clear.
Hope I can also contribute to this forum in the future.

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Permalink Reply by Bruce Sinclair on April 28, 2010 at 3:23pm

This is rough but the gogoCPE 6RD will be released in about 3 weeks and the gogoSERVER with 6RD support a couple of weeks after that. Both are running internally and being tested as we speak.

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Permalink Reply by Tun Tun on July 4, 2010 at 8:04am

Hi Bruce,
Hope your 6RD CPE and 6RD server are ready by now. Can you please share which RFC or draft your 6RD solutions support? Also, how soon do you think we can have trial on your product?

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Permalink Reply by Bruce Sinclair on July 4, 2010 at 4:40pm

Hello Tun Tun, yes, both the 6RD CPE and Server are ready and available to trial. The Server and CPE also support TSP, DS-lite and DSTM so you can test different scenarios as it is likely that you will want to use different technologies for different customers (existing, new) and within different parts of your network. I'll have someone get back to you with the technical details.

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Permalink Reply by Mikael Lind on July 5, 2010 at 9:21am

It is based on the initial 6RD document, RFC5569.

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Permalink Reply by Tun Tun on July 7, 2010 at 11:17am

Thanks Mikael.

I hope draft-ietf-softwire-ipv6-6rd-10 become standard soon.

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Permalink Reply by Mark Townsley on July 12, 2010 at 8:40am

It's already been approved by the IESG, and the DHCP codepoint (212) has been assigned as well. It's strictly in RFC Editor processing now.

RFC 5569 is a very good document, but the softwire version does contain some important additional pieces that I think implementations should be sure to have.