INL: IP Networking Lab - ipv6

Computer Networking course : part 4 (Network layer)

obo — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 14:06:22 +0000

First part (basics, distance vector routing)

Second part (link state routing, IPv4)

Due to a computer bug, this part was not recorded correctly

Shim6: Multihoming for IPv6

sbarre — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 14:30:18 +0000

Shim6 is a multihoming protocol that has been designed by the IETF to suit the requirements of the new version of IP, IPv6. Currently BGP is used to provide multihomed connectivity to sites, but this technique is already now responsible for part of the growth of the BGP routing tables, and it could be even worth with the very long IPv6 addresses. This presentation explains the motivations that led to the design of Shim6, and goes through its functional and security challenges. We conclude with some open research areas.

Preparing network configurations for IPv6 renumbering

dleroy — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 12:36:12 +0000

The difficulty of renumbering a network — i.e., adding and removing an Internet Protocol (IP) prefix due to a provider change or a network merger — is a real issue for most network administrators. In this paper, we propose a set of macros that can be used in configuration files. These allow network administrators to write generic configurations that are independent of the public IPv6 prefixes allocated to their network.

Reduce IP Address Fragmentation through Allocation

dleroy — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 16:21:34 +0000

Mei Wang Dunn, L. (Cisco Syst.) Wei Mao Tao Chen (China Internet Network Information Center)
Appears in: Computer Communications and Networks, 2007. ICCCN 2007.
Publication Date: 13-16 Aug. 2007
On page(s): 371-376
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/iel5/4317769/4317770/04317847.pdf

This paper introduce a "new" allocation scheme for address block that is growth-based. It uses growth rate information of customers for optimizing the allocation. An evaluation is made on historical date from APNIC and China.

LinShim6 0.8 released

sbarre — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 12:43:46 +0000

LinShim6 0.8 has been released.

LinShim6 is an implementation of the Shim6 protocol, that provides host-centric multihoming capabilities to IPv6.
The major new feature present in version 0.8 is the support for locator updates, that is, the peer is now informed when new locators become locally available.
More information here : http://inl.info.ucl.ac.be/LinShim6

MPU - Macro based Prefix Updater

dleroy — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 11:04:52 +0000

The source code is available below. Unfortunately, the manual is not yet finished and it may be difficult for you to use this tool without it. I'll do my best to publish it as soon as possible.

Google IPv6 Conference - Summaries and comments

dleroy — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 12:00:18 +0000

to be continued

IPv6 and DNS

By ISC. (authors of BIND)
Nothing really interesting for us.

Discussion

Available at http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7378520217361044033&q=ipv6+%22Google+Tech+Talks%22+duration%3Along+(site%3Avideo.google.com+OR+site%3Ayoutube.com)&hl=en-GB

- It seems that Apple airport Gateway implements full IPv6 (by tunnel?)
- NAT v4->v6->v4 an issue ? It is temporary and an incentive for full IPv6... and it's not worth than v4->v4->v4

A Monitoring Approach for Safe IPv6 Renumbering

dleroy — Mon, 19 May 2008 14:17:42 +0000

F. Beck, I. Chrisment, and O. Festor. A Monitoring Approach for Safe IPv6 Renumbering. IPv6 Today - Technology and Deployment Workshop (IPv6TD'06). August 2006.
The paper can be found on : http://hal.inria.fr/action/open_file.php?url=http://hal.inria.fr/docs/00...

IPv6 delay and loss performance evolution

dsaucez — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 07:30:12 +0000

The paper titled "IPv6 delay and loss performance evolution" written by Zhou et al. in the International Journal of Communication Systems proposes to analyze the performances of IPv6 paths compared to IPv4 paths between the same nodes.

The dataset is the RIPE database between the October 1st, 2003 and October 31th 2005. The principle is simple: process the RIPE database for the TTM boxes running both IPv4 and IPv6 and compare the performances in term of delay and loss ratio for the two protocols.

LinShim6 - Implementation of the Shim6 protocol

sbarre — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 23:17:24 +0000

LinShim6 is an implementation of the Shim6 protocol. This document is the most complete documentation for that work. It provides explanations for users, developers, and describes the whole architecture. Since LinShim6 is still evolving, this document is likely to be replaced from time to time with a more up to date version.