Abilene - GEANT

Kevin Loch kloch at kl.net
Fri Feb 16 21:02:10 CET 2007


Matthew Davy wrote:

> I asked them about this the other day.   My understanding is that 
> sometime soon they will assign IPv6 blocks to the current v4 unicast 
> public broadcast domain.      They also said if I ran dual-stack over my 
> port they would support that the same as v4.    My understanding from 
> their email is that I could assign an IPv6 address to my interface on 
> the public exchange today and establish peers.    Although, I'd rather 
> wait until Equinix designates a v6 address block for the exchange.

The v6 only switch is linked to the main peering switch so they
use the same /64.  This means you will be able to peer with folks on the
v6 only switch as well as the main switch when they are done testing it.

- Kevin


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