v6 routing pessimism

Carlos Friacas cfriacas at fccn.pt
Wed May 18 18:03:01 CEST 2005


On Wed, 18 May 2005, Gert Doering wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On Wed, May 18, 2005 at 04:38:40PM +0100, Carlos Friacas wrote:
>>> And before anyone starts pointing the finger at the immediate upstream
>>> (AS2110), this goes well beyond any misconfiguration they might have.
>>>
>>> The AS path is a hilarious "2110 3549 11537 17579 1237 17832 24136 109
>>> 109 6939 3257 3333" - ouch!
>>
>> glad not to see my ASN on this as-path :-)
>>
>> now, to the serious question: can't you get an IPv6 transit provider based
>> in Europe? :-)
>
> Hmmm, well, 3549 *does* have v6 routers in Europe...  and even though
> still tunnel-based internally, they are not the worst AS out there (by far).


Sounds strange to me... doesn't AS3549 have a v6 router in ams-ix, do 
they need to go through abilene? :-)


> Gert Doering
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./Carlos
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