[bulug] Re: BU & IPv6

I emailed nethelp@xxxxxx about this question last June. Their reply is
pasted below. I spent a little while trying to get something to work,
and was unsuccessful. Not sure what (if anything) has changed since then.

- Ben

Reply dated June 10, 2011.

"As things stand today, the University is not quite ready to provide
native IPv6 services to the community, though there is an active
internal project within our team to develop this service. Our
goal is to have some level of service available for early adoptors
and others with special needs and interest by the end of this year
or early next year.

At this point, the University has acquired its own address assignment
(2610:58::/32), we have redundant native access to the global v6
backbone (though not as robust as we'd like), and all of our backbone
equipment is capable of supporting native v6 traffic flows. With
that said, we are being very caution because IPv6 access is generally
perferred by various operating systems which limits our ability to
do a "silent" rollout. Once we enable the service, most client systems
will start using it.

As with most technologies that we deal with, our plans are focused on
providing services to the general community so the timelines can
sometimes be a little long. However, if you have an immediate need
or interest, please let us know and we can discuss your situation to
see if it is feasible for us to provide a temporary and limited solution
for you before our services are ready for production."

on 04/27/2012 11:11 PM, Jimmy C. Chau said the following:
> I wonder if this list is still active. 
> 
> Anyway, I'm curious whether any of you were able to make any progress
> with IPv6 on the BU network (whether it's through an IPv6 over IPv4
> tunnel or directly). 
> 
> -Jimmy
> 
> On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 5:10 PM, Jimmy C. Chau <chaujc@xxxxxxxxx
> <mailto:chaujc@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
> 
>     How did you guess?  It *does* start with fe80.  Ah, well.  Guess like
>     we'll have to wait a while longer.
> 
>     -Jimmy
> 
>     Likai Liu wrote:
>     > This page has been around for a number of years now, and I'm not sure
>     > how current it is. But it does indicate that BU's IPv6 block is
>     > 2001:0468:0609::/48.
>     >
>     > http://www.uis.harvard.edu/emerging_technologies/ipv6.php
>     >
>     > I've tried out a IPv6 tunnel service at home over my own DSL---the
>     > default tunnel broker configured into Apple Airport Express, which I
>     > think is Sprint---and there is not much IPv6 content out there that
>     > you can't get with IPv4. The only impressive thing is the animated
>     > KAME turtle.
>     >
>     > http://www.kame.net/
>     >
>     > If you get an IPv6 address that starts with fe80, it's a non-routable
>     > link layer address, and it's about as useful as 169.*.*.*
>     > self-assigned address in IPv4.
>     >
>     > I'm curious what IPv6 address you guys get.
>     >
>     > liulk
>     >
>     > 2009/11/1 james bardin <jbardin@xxxxxx <mailto:jbardin@xxxxxx>>:
>     >
>     >> On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 9:35 AM, Ryan Mullen <rmullen@xxxxxx
>     <mailto:rmullen@xxxxxx>> wrote:
>     >>
>     >>>> Has anyone gotten IPv6 to fully work at BU yet?
>     >>>>
>     >> BU is currently "IPv6 ready", meaning that we have the capability to
>     >> handle IPv6, but it is not yet fully implemented. We have a huge
>     block
>     >> of public IPs allocated, and I believe, externally routed. For more
>     >> details, you can contact the Network Systems Group
>     (nethelp@xxxxxx <mailto:nethelp@xxxxxx>)
>     >>
>     >> If there is demand for routing IPv6 on campus, email
>     nethelp@xxxxxx <mailto:nethelp@xxxxxx>
>     >> with the request.
>     >>
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Biomedical Engineering Department
Boston University College of Engineering
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