Address Management in IPv6

[Ted Mittelstaedt]

On 1/6/2011 7:35 AM, Hannigan, Martin wrote:
>
>
>
> On 1/6/11 10:21 AM, "Graham Beneke"<graham at neology.co.za>  wrote:
>
>> On 04/01/2011 23:55, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:
>>> On 1/4/2011 12:38 PM, Andy Davidson wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On 4 Jan 2011, at 13:39, Graham Beneke wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> We currently store our subnet assignments in a wiki and don't record
>>>>> host assignments.
>>>>> What tools are available for tracking and recording IPv6 assignments
>>>>> within an organisation? Does anyone have good or bad experiences with
>>>>> particular apps?
>>>>
>>>> Last time I had to answer this question, I reached for Haci (coming from
>>>> ipplan too). Haci's interface is a lot cleaner than ipplan. I understand
>>>> that since I had to make that decision, the ipplan developer has added
>>>> v6 support.
>>>>
>>>> However, next time I need to select an IPAM tools, I will definitely
>>>> look again at 6connect IPAM - http://www.6connect.net/platform/ipam/. I
>>>> had a demo of it recently, and it included out of the box a bunch of the
>>>> automation scripts that one needs to bolt onto the FOSS tools to make
>>>> them useful. I certainly recommend you look at this software.
>>>>
>>>
>>> With ARIN going to the REST interface late last year I would
>>> strongly recommend before laying your cash down that you get an
>>> ironclad guarantee from this company that IPAM will interface
>>> to ARIN through the REST interface and NOT through the older
>>> e-mail interface (that ARIN is phasing out) for SWIP filing,
>>> before you buy it, or that any needed upgrades to doing this
>>> will be free.
>>
>> Since I am in the AfriNIC region, I would be more interested in
>> integration with AfriNIC's systems ;-)
>>
>> Thank you all for you input - I now have a number of options to try out.
>
>
> This is not an endorsement, but based on the content of this thread it seems
> appropriate to comment. I have reviewed most of the IPAM's out there and I
> found that they are typically geared towards the enterprise. For example,
> most were stunned that I might want to actually have a database containing
> ~65k /48's out of a /32 or even multiple /32's.

Please elaborate on what technical or user interface problems do you see 
with these for keeping 65k /48's?  I see no obstacles to doing
this with HaCi and I cannot imagine the authors of HaCi or IPPLAN
give a rat's ass what you want to do with their free software.

Your comment sounds like you have spoken only
to sales reps of commercial IPAMs and it isn't real difficult to stun
most sales reps about anything.

Ted

  For what it's worth, none
> that I reviewed had REST in any context aside from 6Connect. Clue indicator
> at a minimum.
>
>
> Best,
>
> -M<
>
>