http://www.6assist.net/ - call for test

Gert Doering gert at space.net
Fri May 10 16:36:50 CEST 2013


Hi,

On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 05:07:57PM +0300, Max Tulyev wrote:
> Easy, just set up the BGP session using 6to4 address space ;)
> 
> Still there are some major problems:
> 1. Unlike IXP-like infrastructure, it is difficult to set up and
> maintain a lot of BGP sessions ("each to each mesh").
> 2. The 6to4 infrastructure is unstable. The reachability of 6to4 address
> is a far away from 100%.

6to4-to-6to4 is as good as any other proto-41 tunnel.  As it is just that,
a proto-41 tunnel with automatic endpoints.

Don't confuse that with 6to4-to-native using anycast relays.

> 3. Your connectivity quality highly depends on 3rd party gate servers,
> often has non-optimal paths from/to it, it can be overloaded, has a
> packet loss and so on.

This is not true for BGP-over-6to4 *between two 6to4 endpoints*.

Gert Doering
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