[afnog] IPv6 Native Mass Market Deployment arrives in Kenya!
Mark Elkins
mje at posix.co.za
Fri Aug 12 12:33:04 UTC 2016
I add my congratulations!
On 12/08/2016 14:21, Mukom Akong T. wrote:
> Congrats to you Andrew & Liquid for paving the way!
>
>
> On 12 August 2016 at 10:32, Andrew Alston
> <Andrew.Alston at liquidtelecom.com
> <mailto:Andrew.Alston at liquidtelecom.com>> wrote:
>
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> The next issue was, enabling the SLAAC to the customer (since that
> only works on /64s), and to do this, we’re pushing config to the
> CPE’s that takes a /64 out of the /48 that’s routed and
> automagically puts it on the LAN interface with SLAAC enabled. This
> works perfectly with the CPE’s we are using, and we’re testing it
> with other CPE’s to have more variety of choice of CPE as well. ____
>
> __ __
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> Sadly, the CPE’s we’ve seen did NOT do this straight out of the box
> so we have to push a config on installation when a new customer
> connects.
>
>
>
> Not just that, there's no standardised way of dealing with these
> "Delegated prefixes". This capability (automatically request a delegated
> prefix, then automatically pick /64 from them and push them out LAN
> interfaces via SLAAC or DHCP) should be a mandatory requirement when an
> ISP is procuring CPEs for IPv6 deployment
>
> We do cover this scenario both theory and labs during our training
> workshops.
>
>
> ____
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> The next biggest issue was customers who for some bizarre reason
> wanted to run CPE’s behind the CPE’s supplied (effectively doing
> dual-NAT on the v4), and if those don’t support v6 or aren’t
> configured for it, there isn’t a huge amount we can do.
>
>
>
> I'd be curious to know why they are doing that. When I've tried that,
> it's always been because i wanted to plug and use my own more powerful
> CPE with IPv6 capability (instead of the crappy one ISPs tend to provide)
>
>
>
> ____
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> With regards to actual machines picking up the v6 where the above
> scenario isn’t happening, zero problems, and we’re actively seeing a
> large number of V6 DNS requests to our DNS servers coming from the
> customers and we’ve seen a massive increase in our V6 traffic levels
> since enabling this – so we know for a fact customers are actually
> using the v6 in fairly large volumes. In particular I see a LOT of
> v6 to Google, Facebook, Amazon AWS, and various other sites.____
>
> __ __
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> So far so good though, but we’re constantly monitoring and hopefully
> in the next few weeks once we have collected a lot more statistics
> I’ll be able to share those as well.
>
>
>
> Kudos once again!
>
>
> ____
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>
> Andrew____
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> *From:*Mark Tinka [mailto:mark.tinka at seacom.mu
> <mailto:mark.tinka at seacom.mu>]
> *Sent:* 12 August 2016 13:07
> *To:* Andrew Alston <Andrew.Alston at liquidtelecom.com
> <mailto:Andrew.Alston at liquidtelecom.com>>; afnog at afnog.org
> <mailto:afnog at afnog.org>
> *Subject:* Re: [afnog] IPv6 Native Mass Market Deployment arrives in
> Kenya!____
>
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> Hi Andrew.
>
> Many congratulations. This is, indeed, a major step, and for me, the
> first of its kind in eastern and southern Africa (mostly because I'm
> not sure how far this is going in northern and western Africa -
> otherwise I'd say the whole of Africa).
>
> I've been challenging a number of broadband ISP's and MNO's in
> Africa in recent years to put a lot more focus and energy in getting
> consumers IPv6-enabled, so to hear that Liquid have succeeded in
> doing this in Kenya is very good news, indeed!
>
> It would be good to hear of challenges specifically around customer
> devices picking up IPv6 addresses, and potentially running into
> Happy Eyeball issues if at all. If you can share that as your
> experience grows, it would tell a good story.
>
> Once again, good work, Andrew and your team! I'm quite impressed to
> hear this!
>
> Mark.____
>
> On 12/Aug/16 11:45, Andrew Alston wrote:____
>
> Hi All,____
>
> ____
>
> I thought I’d just share this with all of you because I view it
> as a fairly major step in the right direction for the continent.____
>
> ____
>
> Yesterday, Liquid Telecom turned on IPv6 to all its Kenyan home
> users using GPON and our FTTH / FTTB products. This was done in
> such a way that the customers didn’t need to configure anything
> themselves to enable it, it was just there J____
>
> ____
>
> The CPE’s are all pushed a configuration as well to SLAAC enable
> the LAN facing interface and doing v6 DNS distribution via ND
> (though we also have v6 DHCP serving V6 DNS and
> other-config-flag set on the ND, so it can get the v6 DNS via
> either method if it doesn’t honor the other-config-flag)____
>
> ____
>
> Though, this is now a challenge to all the other ISP’s offering
> home user mass market products – v6 works – it’s time to start
> seeing more deployment J____
>
> ____
>
> We hope to have the v6 turned up shortly in Zimbabwe and other
> markets in the next few weeks as well.____
>
> ____
>
> Andrew____
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> ____
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