[c-nsp] IPv6 experience on DSBU switches

[Alan Buxey]

Hi,

attended a wonderful talk about IPv6 at Cisco networkers earlier this year.

some good stuff being shown....and then they mentioned that all these security
features etc are only in lab and wont be on our IOS for some time  :-(


regarding IPv6 support on hardware - at this point in time I've given up with
doing IPv6 on the switches/routers themselves - keeping all management to
IPv4...all communication to RADIUS, TACACS, TFTP etc as IPv4

on the wire, however, things are different - our DNS, RADIUS, NTP etc (ie
core infrastructure) is all dual-stack and happily passing most of its
stuff via IPv6 where needed...which is good.

DHCPv6 is another thing altogether (thanks steering groups and OS vendors!)

most of my server access  (on site and offsite ) is now via IPv6 too
- hey, if i turned the IPv4 off then , for a while, almost all attacks
from those IPv4 only networks would stop.. hmmm...tempting! ;-)

alan