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Linode - IPv6 Status and FAQ

24 points by superchink 15y ago

superchink 15y ago
Not sure if this was cleared up previously, but it looks like they are giving free additional IPv6 addresses.
- pieter 15y ago
  Good to see they're responding to the criticism so fast. Handing out /116's seems a bit of a weird choice, but that's not really a problem. I'd be interested in hearing how they handle the routing within the data centers. Is it all just ethernet, and whoever uses ND (IPv6's ARP) to announce an address gets data to that address routed, or is are there some kind of subnets in between? How do they avoid someone stealing an address in your pool?
  - RyanKearney 15y ago
    My guess is each physical machine will be statically routed blocks. The hypervisor will then statically route smaller blocks to specific VMs.
  - jmillikin 15y ago
    > Handing out /116's seems a bit of a weird choice, but that's not really a problem. My guess is that they're routing a /64 to each physical machine, and then /116s to the virtual systems. 4096 addresses is much nicer than just one, so I'm thrilled to see this change. Switching over from a tunnel right now.
    - pieter 15y ago
      > My guess is that they're routing a /64 to each physical machine, and then /116s to the virtual systems. That doesn't really work, as the /116 is shared among all nodes in the same DC. It also doesn't explain how SLAAC works, as all nodes in the DC get an address from the same pool (2600:3c01::/64 for instance).
antihero 15y ago
Why is London going to take so long? :(
- noisysquid 15y ago
  Most likely because the datacenter isn't uprading to ipv6 until then.
- planer 15y ago
  I guess they don't regard their london data center as important as the others
pieter 15y ago
The two most important updates since the original announcement are that Newark, NJ is now IPv6 enabled and that you can now get more than one IPv6 address for free.
jeffreymcmanus 15y ago
"No forced migrations here" and the timing of this suggest to me that it's a competitive response to the bungled attempt by Rackspace to end-of-life Slicehost. Good for them. (In their announcement, Rackspace rather listed IPv6 as the primary rationale for shutting down Slicehost.)
JeremyBanks 15y ago
I'm impressed. I opened a support ticket to request an IPv6 address, and they responded and activated it less than 40 seconds later. Good service!
- RyanKearney 15y ago
  I'm impressed with my provider too. My server came with a /64 free of charge.

24 points by superchink 15y ago

superchink 15y ago

Not sure if this was cleared up previously, but it looks like they are giving free additional IPv6 addresses.

pieter 15y ago
Good to see they're responding to the criticism so fast. Handing out /116's seems a bit of a weird choice, but that's not really a problem. I'd be interested in hearing how they handle the routing within the data centers. Is it all just ethernet, and whoever uses ND (IPv6's ARP) to announce an address gets data to that address routed, or is are there some kind of subnets in between? How do they avoid someone stealing an address in your pool?
- RyanKearney 15y ago
  My guess is each physical machine will be statically routed blocks. The hypervisor will then statically route smaller blocks to specific VMs.
- jmillikin 15y ago
  > Handing out /116's seems a bit of a weird choice, but that's not really a problem. My guess is that they're routing a /64 to each physical machine, and then /116s to the virtual systems. 4096 addresses is much nicer than just one, so I'm thrilled to see this change. Switching over from a tunnel right now.
  - pieter 15y ago
    > My guess is that they're routing a /64 to each physical machine, and then /116s to the virtual systems. That doesn't really work, as the /116 is shared among all nodes in the same DC. It also doesn't explain how SLAAC works, as all nodes in the DC get an address from the same pool (2600:3c01::/64 for instance).

antihero 15y ago

Why is London going to take so long? :(

noisysquid 15y ago
Most likely because the datacenter isn't uprading to ipv6 until then.
planer 15y ago
I guess they don't regard their london data center as important as the others

pieter 15y ago

The two most important updates since the original announcement are that Newark, NJ is now IPv6 enabled and that you can now get more than one IPv6 address for free.

jeffreymcmanus 15y ago

"No forced migrations here" and the timing of this suggest to me that it's a competitive response to the bungled attempt by Rackspace to end-of-life Slicehost. Good for them. (In their announcement, Rackspace rather listed IPv6 as the primary rationale for shutting down Slicehost.)

JeremyBanks 15y ago

I'm impressed. I opened a support ticket to request an IPv6 address, and they responded and activated it less than 40 seconds later. Good service!

RyanKearney 15y ago
I'm impressed with my provider too. My server came with a /64 free of charge.