Re: exchanges with both native IPv4 and IPv6?

On Thu, Jul 25, 2002 at 07:18:40 +0200, Stig Venaas wrote:

> Are there any exchanges running production IPv4 and IPv6 traffic on the
> same LAN?

Yes, the AMS-IX in Amsterdam is doing this for a couple of years now.
And there are more IXes doing this.

> Some (IPv4 people) might be a bit reluctant to introducing IPv6 on the
> same LAN like this. The IPv4-only partners should not notice anything
> except for some neighbor discovery though.

IPv6 on the AMS-IX started as an experiment on a separate VLAN. Maybe
this made it easier to switch to the current 1-VLAN setup. I don't
think there were any objections when IPv6 was moved to the IPv4
production VLAN.

> Do you see some possible issues? Are there some IXes doing this today
> that might be used as reference?

I will ask somebody of the AMS-IX office.

	rvdp