[CUWiN] ipv6 connectivity in champaign-urbana ?

Sascha Meinrath sascha at ucimc.org
Sat Aug 6 11:30:44 CDT 2005



Chase Phillips wrote:
> On Fri, 5 Aug 2005, David Young wrote:
> 
> 
>>What's the low-down on IPv6 in Illinois, or anywhere near to
>>Champaign-Urbana "as the packet flies" ?  Soon I will experiment with
>>some IPv4 to IPv6 transition technologies, like 6to4.  I am wondering
>>how many hops my 6to4 gateway will be from a "native" IPv6 internetwork.
>>Does anyone have any experience with IPv6 in C-U?
> 
> 
> If you can get onto Internet2 somehow you'll be close to NCSA's network
> which might have a subnet or many running IPv6 for experimental purposes.
> Seems like a good research opportunity for them, too.
> 
> Jon Dugan comes to mind as one possible contact, though I'm not certain
> he's still with NCSA.

Another option would be to use a Tunnel Broker (e.g., 
http://ipv6tb.he.net, http://www.hexago.com)...  There's a nifty little 
article in the back of the Spring 2005 issue of 2600 on this.

--Sascha



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