IPv6 Transit in Manchester, UK ?

[Terry Froy]

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Daniel Roesen wrote:

> On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 11:24:35PM +0000, Terry Froy wrote:
>> My IPv6 connectivity needs would only stretch to a few KBytes/s
>> in both directions as I only have two 2Mbit/s transit feeds and I
>> only have around 20 or so hosts behind my border router - both my
>> upstreams peer via the LINX and LoNAP so shouldn't impact on the
>> running costs of anyone who provides me with a tunnel and also
>> peers at those IXs.
>
> Another option would be to receive native upstream _via_ those
> IXPs.
>
> I don't know their rules on that, but I hardly imagine they care
> for IPv6. This (giving native IPv6 upstream via IXP) is quite often
> done in general. The upstream traffic flows anyway, wether
> GRE/IPv6-IP encapsed or native doesn't really matter to the IXP.
>
> This should give you plenty of options.

Hi Daniel,

I researched getting some tunneled transit from Tiscali via one of my
upstream providers who currently uses them; apparently, Tiscali is
unlikely to go for that idea according to my upstream provider.

Regards,
Terry Froy
Spilsby Internet Solutions
http://www.spilsby.net/

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