XS4ALL Introduces native IPv6 for DSL customers

[Marco Hogewoning]

On 26 aug 2010, at 23:53, Mark Smith wrote:

> On Thu, 26 Aug 2010 18:52:37 +0200
> Marco Hogewoning <marcoh at marcoh.net> wrote:
> 
>> 
>> On 26 aug 2010, at 17:43, Daniel Verlouw wrote:
>> 
>>> Excellent news, good job!
>>> 
>>> On Thu, 2010-08-26 at 17:22 +0200, Marco Hogewoning wrote:
>>>> XS4ALL customers can activate IPv6 on their account with a simple flick of a switch in the Service Centre on the company’s website. 
>>> 
>>> just out of curiosity why not turned on by default ? Router/modem
>>> compatibility issues? A provisioning thing? Or afraid of helpdesk
>>> overload with calls such as "my connection all of sudden doesn't work
>>> anymore after you turned on this Eye Pee Vee Six thing" ? ;)
>> 
>> 
>> Both, on one side we know we have a lot of non-IPv6 capable modems out there, so why waist resources on them. The other is indeed the fact taht if we push IPv6 to people without them being aware we might run into trouble.
>> 
> 
> I've seen an IPv4 only modem lock up two minutes after establishing a
> PPP session, and then having upstream LNS periodically try to kick off
> IPV6CP again. I suppose a lock up is somewhat equivalent to a PPP
> Protocol-Reject ;-)


Our side is completely passive, so as long as the modem doesn't try to setup IPV6CP nothing will happen. But it still eats a routing entry, address assigment and the whole lot. More over at least now we can see somebody is using IPv6, makes support a whole lot easier.

MarcoH