IPv6 Deployments and Experience in Europe @renater.fr Agenda Introduction Back to the beginnings Brief academics story with IPv6 From testbeds to Production IPv6 services G6 & Renater s roles EU stepped in GEANT IPv6 Building the Internetv6 International connections (TEIN, Opentransit, ) Asia, Africa and Americas Applications! Experimental IPv6 multicast service Trends and tentative conclusion -Cisco, Beijing, 04/2005 2 1
Contributors Ana Romero, DANTE, UK Bernhard Fabianek, EC, EU Jérôme Durand, RENATER, FR Bernard Tuy, RENATER, FR -Cisco, Beijing, 04/2005 3 Introduction Good news! Not possible to talk on all IPv6 deployments / services already available! Whatever the country in EU Pick up some examples and try to outline important lessons from -Cisco, Beijing, 04/2005 4 2
Back to the Beginnings A short IPv6 history Academics story with IPv6 At the beginning was the G6 «french» group experimenting IPv6 since 1995 Academics and industrial partners sharing experience Became the G6 association in 01/2000 All the activities are managed within the association It is not required to be a member to attend the meetings! -Cisco, Beijing, 04/2005 6 3
Academics story with IPv6 G6 charter : Experiment with the IPv6 protocol : French National Programmes (RNRT, ) European Projects (FP5/FP6 : IST / Eureka ) G6 projects Renater / Aristote Share experience with others Web sites IPv6 book : «IPv6: Théorie & Pratique» O Reilly ed. (4th edition in preparation) Tutorials, conferences Info : http://www.g6.asso.fr/ -Cisco, Beijing, 04/2005 7 Academics story with IPv6 G6bone The first IPv6 network in France (1996) One of the 3 first IPv6 nodes starting the 6bone UNI-C, DK WIDE, JP G6, FR Tunneled network (v6inv4) Hierarchical addressing from the beginning Two-level topology : RIs + IPv6 sites Static routing + RIPng -Cisco, Beijing, 04/2005 8 4
Q3/99 G6-bone : regional PoPs Lille Caen: CNET Rennes: ENS Telecom Brest Rennes Nantes Caen Paris Strasbourg Nancy Colmar Belfort Strasbourg: Univ L.Pasteur PARIS: Logique P-7 Urec/Cnrs Montbonnot: INRIA 6Bone Bordeaux Montbonnot Grenoble Sophia Grenoble: IMAG -Cisco, Beijing, 04/2005 9 Then came Renater And the implementation of a IPv6 pilot service RENATER Organisation Ministry for High Education and Research Missions: Provide IP connectivity to the research and high education community Provide the users Internet commodity connectivity to Internet Specify, design and trial new services => make our users happy -Cisco, Beijing, 04/2005 10 5
Renater /2 The National network (in 2000) 25 Regional PoPs ATM links up to 622 Mb/s Regional / metropolitan networks connect to Renater PoPs Users sites 600+ connected via their Reg/Metro network -Cisco, Beijing, 04/2005 11 Renater-2 topology (2) Renater-3 BB Reg. Intercon nect Regional Networks Campuses MANs Exchange with other Regional Networks -Cisco, Beijing, 04/2005 12 6
Academics story with IPv6 IPv6 Pilot over Renater-2 (P6R2) May 2000 A native IPv6 network dedicated ATM VPN Deploy the production addressing plan July 1999 : first stla allocation (/35) Same two-level topology as in G6bone Academic sites production addressing scheme Industrial sites involved in research projects 6bone addressing scheme Gain experience with a pre-production service -Cisco, Beijing, 04/2005 13 RENATER / France : P6R2 Lille Other IPv6 Networks 6bone RNP, BR VTHD Brest 6TAP Rennes FT R&D Nantes Caen Sfinx Paris Nancy Strasbourg Loria INRIA Colmar Belfort ETRI, KR Grenoble Euro-IPv6 WIDE Toulouse Sophia -Cisco, Beijing, 04/2005 14 7
The Pilot experience Experience Using the protocol Equipments Cisco partnership Addresses Deploying a consistent scheme (/35) for the core and the sites Routing ISIS and BGP4+ IPv6 resources allocation Procedures and management IPv6 DNS Deployment of the DNS service Reverse zones delegation to RIs and end-users sites Management IPv6 NOC within Renater-2 NOC Management and monitoring tools Set of looking glasses at the RIs -Cisco, Beijing, 04/2005 15 Academics story with IPv6 Summary Understand the technology Choose a strategy Deploy the network Core + Sites Manage the whole thing Technical resources Human resources Financial resources -Cisco, Beijing, 04/2005 16 8
From testbeds to IPv6 services Agenda Introduction Back to the beginnings Academics story with IPv6 From testbeds to Production IPv6 services G6 & Renater s roles EU stepped in GEANT IPv6 Building the Internetv6 International connections (TEIN, Opentransit, ) Asia, Africa and Americas Applications! Experimental IPv6 multicast service Trends and tentative conclusion -Cisco, Beijing, 04/2005 18 9
RENATER s Production IPv6 service And now Renater-3 Why a production-like IPv6 service? ATM removed Move all network services on a unique topology Do we want to forget about IPv6, IPv4 multicast? Needs for an IPv6 transport Research projects using IPv6 Sites with native IPv6 network install a native IPv6 core run both versions of IP on the same equipments Monitor the IPv6 service in the same operational way than IPv4 -Cisco, Beijing, 04/2005 19 Renater : national backbone -Cisco, Beijing, 04/2005 21 10
Renater : international links GEANT 10 Gbit/s Overseas territories 1 Gbit/s SFINX (GIX) 2,5 Gbit/s US 2,5 Gbit/s Korea -Cisco, Beijing, 04/2005 22 Renater 3 : Native support 2.5 Gbits/s backbone 30 Regional Nodes (NR) Native IPv6 on all regional nodes Dual stack backbone IPv4 and IPv6 Global IP Service IPv4 unicast and multicast IPv6 unicast IPv6 and IPv4 carried without any distinction Goal : achieve for both versions of IP an equal level of Performance Availability Management Support -Cisco, Beijing, 04/2005 23 11
Addressing Hierarchical addressing Renater stla = 2001:0660::/32 Regional Interconnects POP-ID =2001:0660:xy::/40 Site NLA-ID : a /48 from the /40 of its RI NLA-IDs allocated by Renater 16 bits are reserved for the site topology -Cisco, Beijing, 04/2005 24 Addressing stla /32 /48 /64 NLA SLA Interface ID 2001:0660: ---------------- POP-ID 8 bits NLA-ID 8 bits 2001:0660:3000:/40 Paris NRI 2001:0660:3300:/40 Paris Jussieu RI 2001:0660:4400:/40 Lille RI 2001:0660:5400:/40 Marseille RI ( ) 2001:0660:300x:/48 -Cisco, Beijing, 04/2005 25 12
Routing EGP : BGP4+ IGP : ISIS + ibgp4+ Route reflectors At each NRI Optimised routes aggregation Site : /64+ aggregated into a single /48 In Regionals : accept only /48s from connected sites In the backbone : /48s aggregated into a single /40 per RI on Renater s router -Cisco, Beijing, 04/2005 29 Policy routing International Advertise Renater /32 stla Accept /32 and /35 from ISPv6 2002::/16 is accepted from international peers and advertised to regional networks Prefixes not allowed are filtered out 2002::/16 is rejected from french regionals 2002::/X, X>16 is filtered out -Cisco, Beijing, 04/2005 30 13
Naming Direct DNS Same domain name for IPv6 and IPv4 Ex : site.fr for IPv4 and IPv6 Just add an IPv6 entry for IPv6 addresses (AAAA) Reverse DNS 0.6.6.0.1.0.0.2.ip6.int from the beginning (disappearing) 0.6.6.0.1.0.0.2.ip6.arpa is deployed (is taking over) Renater performs Reverse zone s delegation of /48 allocated to the sites In both reverse trees BUT : 1 primary server AND 1+ secondary servers have to be configured first! -Cisco, Beijing, 04/2005 31 Renater s international connections for IPv6 Connectivity for projects European Projects (IST) French projects (RNRT/RNTL, G6, ) USA : GéANT, OpenTransit Asia : TEIN European Research Networks GEANT Direct tunnels Africa : direct tunnels South America Direct tunnels -Cisco, Beijing, 04/2005 33 14
Transition scenarios Renater s backbone is native IPv6 Some sites too BUT still some Regional networks are not IPv6 capable yet Dedicated router in each Region (reg. router) to connect IPv6 sites Prefigure IPv6 Regional network Between regional router and sites : VLANs Tunnels (static or Migration Broker) ATM PVCs -Cisco, Beijing, 04/2005 36 Conclusion Renater was a precursor Today all NRENs in the EU have an IPv6 connectivity service Dual stack is THE preferred way to deploy it Few «plays/ have played» with 6PE (MPLS) -Cisco, Beijing, 04/2005 39 15
European Commission & IPv6 promotion EU : geopolitical -Cisco, Beijing, 04/2005 41 16
Agenda European organisation EC and Parliament Research Programmes FP5 / FP6 European projects GéANT 6NET Euro6ix National organisations NRENs -Cisco, Beijing, 04/2005 42 European organisation European Council European Parliament European Commission Research Programmes (FP5, FP6) Funding research projects : Budgets 6NET, Euro6ix, GéANT, 1998-2002 : FP5 : 13, 7 Billions IST: 3,6 Billions 2003-2007 : FP6 : 18 Billions IST: 4 Billions -Cisco, Beijing, 04/2005 43 17
Research Networks: The Model Testbeds use GEANT infrastructure Scientific/Application Areas GEANT profits from technological innovation GRIDs IPv6 International Dimension GEANT Network -Cisco, Beijing, 04/2005 44 IPv6 funded projects in the EU 15+ IPv6 projects 60+ M Infrastructure Applications Transitions mechs Protocoles EU IPv6 TF SC Natl IPv6 TFs (Fr, De, Es, Uk, ) 6NET Euro6ix 6QM 6Power 6LINK EUrov6 6INIT / 6WINIT -Cisco, Beijing, 04/2005 45 18
Extensive IPv6 Test-beds To Japan To North America Native IPv6 at: 34 Mb/s, 155 Mb/s, 2.5 Gb/s 2500 person months of work over 3 years 33 MEuro total cost www.6net.org and www.euro6ix.net To Korea -Cisco, Beijing, 04/2005 46 6NET a pan european research IPv6 network 19
Project Overview One of the largest Internet research projects from the European Commission 18.4 MEuro Preparing the Next Generation Internet A major international native IPv6 testbed A 3 year project (started 1-1-2002) -Cisco, Beijing, 04/2005 48 6Net core -Cisco, Beijing, 04/2005 53 20
Network evolution Wider coverage Up and running Japan Internet2 UK NL DE SE PL Internet2 Internet2 Korea FR CH CZ AT HU IT Euro6IX Peering Colt GR Deutsche Telekom Telia Tunnel Nordic Planned native -Cisco, Beijing, 04/2005 STM1 links 54 The 6net Layout 24 June 2004 -Cisco, Beijing, 04/2005 56 21
IGP routing: ISIS United Kingdom Sweden France The Netherlands Germany Greece Austria Italy Switzerland STM1 POS STM1 Tunnel L2-ISIS Neighborship -Cisco, Beijing, 04/2005 59 BGP Routing Details BGP Authentication: (1) md5 Authentication will be used for ebgp and ibgp peering sessions (2) The following initial passwords have been elected: For ebgp sessions: <External BGP Password> For ibgp sessions: <Internal BGP Password> Summary: (1) Each 6NET AS-border router will be configured with a 2001:0798::/35 to the null0 interface (2) This route will be used for summary reason. (3) This route will be filtered for ibgp sessions, and not filtered for ebgp sessions (4) Goal: very stable summary /35 prefix for 6NET environment -Cisco, Beijing, 04/2005 62 22
6NET QoS Test included: 1 * EF/ 2 * AF Class Policing Classification concorde Fast Ethernet rtr2 JANET POS rtr1 JANET POS 6NET JANET United Kingdom 6NET Germany GSR 155Mbps GSR POS 155Mbps QoS was enabled for >8 months!! The Netherla nds GSR 155Mbps ATHENS GSR Gigabit Ethernet 2001:648:0:1002:20c:6eff:fec7:9160 -Cisco, Beijing, 04/2005 66 Premium traffic Demonstrators VoIP with SIP (SIP Express Router) + voice user agent (eg. Kphone IPv6) + PSTN gateway + MCU + VPN functionality Flute Streaming between mobile hosts, including Mobile IP functionality AccessGrid Globus (GT3) Open H323 + Open VPN Home Networking Greek School Network -Cisco, Beijing, 04/2005 67 23
Mobile IPv6 Streaming Demonstrator WLAN1 WLAN2 -Cisco, Beijing, 04/2005 68 Managing the network Network management architecture Network monitoring tools, applications, platforms 40+ «tools» : tested, ported http://tools.6net.org/moin/monitoringtoolslist Tools implemented in NRENs and 6Net core network http://tools.6net.org/ -Cisco, Beijing, 04/2005 69 24
-Cisco, Beijing, 04/2005 70 The Next steps Research on IPv6 Closed User Group Getting IPv6 Services to end-points (i.e. GSN) Collaboration Projects: SILK SEEREN EGEE IPv6 Renumbering TOI: IPv6 Book IPv6 tutorials (Belgrade, ) IPv6 Tiger Team 6DISS (e-learning) Hardware kit for TOI usage 6TAC support -Cisco, Beijing, 04/2005 71 25
6DISS: Agenda 6DISS: IPv6 Dissemination & Exploitation Key Data (partners, duration, cost) Objectives Technical Approach Potential Impact Expected Results -Cisco, Beijing, 04/2005 72 6DISS: Key Data Partners: Martel Cisco, Alcatel RENATER, GRNET, FCCN TERENA University College London, University of Southampton Duration: 1st April 2005, for 30 months EC Funding: EUR 900K -Cisco, Beijing, 04/2005 73 26
6DISS : Objectives (1) To transfer knowledge and deployment experiences from European IPv6 projects (6NET, Euro6IX, GEANT), TERENA, European NRENs, etc. to research network operators, universities, commercial organisations, governments and regulators in:. Balkan countries (inc. Bulgaria, Rumania, Moldova & Turkey). Mediterranean countries. Newly-Independent States (Central Asia, including Afghanistan). Sub-Saharan Africa. Southern Africa. The Caribbean. Asia-Pacific region. South and Central America -Cisco, Beijing, 04/2005 74 6DISS : Objectives (2) will exchange information with such organisations in India & China To build constituencies, raise awareness, exchange best practices, and engage the organisations in future IST projects. -Cisco, Beijing, 04/2005 75 27
6DISS Technical Approach: Workshops Expertise & material from 6NET, Euro6IX, GEANT, NRENs, IPv6 modules tuned for each Workshop Workshop organisation & technical support Support for IPv6 deployment & future IST participation Personal expertise & Cookbooks Material preparation Dissemination Longer-term assistance 8 Workshops (1 per targeted region, owned by a specific partner) Balkan countries Mediterranean, Sub-Saharan Africa & Caribbean Newly-Independent States South & Central America Southern Africa Southern Asia plus exchange of best practices and deployment examples at events in India and China GRNET RENATER UCL TERENA/FCCN Cisco Uni SOTON Uni SOTON, Martel -Cisco, Beijing, 04/2005 77 GEANT A pan european backbone for Research communities 28
GEANT topology (10/2004) Multi-Gigabit pan-european Research Network Connecting : 33 european countries and 30 NRENs Backbone capacity : 155Mb/s-10Gb/s Routers : Juniper M-series -Cisco, Beijing, 04/2005 82 IPv6 implementation on GEANT Implementation of dual stack in GEANT Feb 2003 First NRENs v6 connected in April 2003 Renater (Fr) and RedIRIS (Es) GEANT IPv6 service operational since Oct 2003 -Cisco, Beijing, 04/2005 83 29
IPv6 connectivity to NRENs 27 out of 30 NRENs connected 23 out of 27 are native connections rest are tunnels ~500 routes announced to NRENs Only 2001::/19-/35 and 2002::/16 allowed No 6bone routes are allowed from EU NRENs -Cisco, Beijing, 04/2005 85 IPv6 connectivity to non-eu Research Networks (I) Abilene (US) => Native connections from the 3 Regions : ARIN Region: DoD (22), VBNS (145), Univ.Wiscosin (2381), Univ.Indiana (22398) LACNIC Region:RNP (1916), Retina (3597) APNIC Region: Taiwan RN(7539),Wide (2500), Australia NREN (7570), Singapore NREN (7610), Thailand Ministry (4621), Chinese Uni.of Hong Kong (3662) -Cisco, Beijing, 04/2005 86 30
IPv6 connectivity to non-eu Research Networks (II) ESnet (US) => Native link Ca-net (CA) => Native in three links SINET (JP) => Tunnel in New York APAN (KR) via RENATER (FR) -Cisco, Beijing, 04/2005 87 IPv6 connectivity to ISP Providing free interconnection for European NRNs to the whole internet Tunnel connections with ISPs Encouraging ISP to develop their networks in IPv6 Access to Euro6IX and Eurov6 partners -Cisco, Beijing, 04/2005 88 31
Géant : IPv6 transit traffic -Cisco, Beijing, 04/2005 89 IPv6 vs IPv4 Traffic volume GÉANT v6 traffic volume: 2% IPv6 of the total traffic IPv6 daily traffic stats for SWITCH access to GÉANT Daily total traffic stats for SWITCH access into GÉANT Daily statistics from one of the most IPv6 users in GÉANT: SWITCH with 5% IPv6 traffic volume of the total traffic in the access -Cisco, Beijing, 04/2005 90 32
Agenda Introduction Back to the beginnings Academics story with IPv6 From testbeds to Production IPv6 services G6 & Renater s roles EU stepped in GEANT IPv6 Applications! Building the Internetv6 International connections (TEIN, Opentransit, ) Asia, Africa and Americas Experimental IPv6 multicast service Trends and tentative conclusion -Cisco, Beijing, 04/2005 91 Applications! 33
Agenda Usual apps DNS, HTTP, SMTP, FTP, SSH, 6NET experiences Tested, ported and trialed apps Management apps Other apps & services Conclusion -Cisco, Beijing, 04/2005 93 Applications 6NET : 50+ applications tested / ported for IPv6 and documented : http://[2001:660:d101:1000:209:6bff:fe58:66d8]/w P5Apps/Applications.html http://193.55.253.34/wp5apps/applications.html -Cisco, Beijing, 04/2005 94 34
-Cisco, Beijing, 04/2005 95 Gnome meeting http://www.gnomemeeting.org/ -Cisco, Beijing, 04/2005 96 35
OpenMCU - IPv6 Open Source (MPL) Based on OpenH323- Library Allows 4-way+ H.323 unicast video conference Simultaneously IPv4 & IPv6 compatible => connects both IP worlds Regularly used by 6NET partners for multipoint video conferences Capable of multipoint video -Cisco, Beijing, 04/2005 97 Liberouter - Cesnet Liberouter is a research project to design and develop an IPv6 and IPv4 router based on the standard PC architecture and reliable operating systems - NetBSD, FreeBSD and Linux http://www.liberouter.org/ -Cisco, Beijing, 04/2005 98 36
SIP Express Router Focus http://www.iptel.org/ser/ SIP Express Router (ser) is a high-performance, configurable, free SIP ( RFC3261 ) server. Some Features: application-server interface SMS gateway Presence messaging RADIUS/syslog accounting and authorization Web-based user provisioning more features to be found on the above URL -Cisco, Beijing, 04/2005 99 SIP Express Router Use cases -Cisco, Beijing, 04/2005 100 37
SIP Communicator - ULP http://sip-communicator.org/ -Cisco, Beijing, 04/2005 101 VideoLAN 1. User uses a web browser to connect to the VideoLAN Portal Server (over IPv6); 2. The portal shows a set of videoassets on servers connected to the 6NET network; 3. User selects a video-assets from the portal; 4. VideoLAN Portal Server starts the stream on Content-server Y or Z and gives as result of the choice, a mine-type that triggers VideoLAN Client to start and connect to the server or to join on the IPv6 Multicast group -Cisco, Beijing, 04/2005 102 38
Managing the network 6NET activity : Network management architecture Network monitoring tools, applications, platforms 40+ «tools» : tested, ported http://tools.6net.org/moin/monitoringtoolslist Tools implemented in NRENs and 6Net core network http://tools.6net.org/ -Cisco, Beijing, 04/2005 103 -Cisco, Beijing, 04/2005 104 39
Managing IPv6 networks MIBs implementation & standardization SNMPv6 NetFlow v9 and IPFIX conformance Tools for network segments : LAN, MAN,WAN Trials with commercial platforms : Cisco Campus Manager Cisco NetFlow collector v5 HP Openview -Cisco, Beijing, 04/2005 105 Nagios -Cisco, Beijing, 04/2005 106 40
ASpath-Tree -Cisco, Beijing, 04/2005 107 Looking Glass -Cisco, Beijing, 04/2005 108 41
Inventory : interfaces & peerings 1'' 4'' SNMP Polling 1 2'' 3'' FTP 3' 2 MySql 2 SSH 1 -Cisco, Beijing, 04/2005 109 Inventory: Interfaces -Cisco, Beijing, 04/2005 110 42
Inventory: BGP Peerings -Cisco, Beijing, 04/2005 111 IPv6 traffic on Cisco routers -Cisco, Beijing, 04/2005 113 43
Connected Regls and sites Reg. Nets: 14 Sites: 52 Allocations: 75 -Cisco, Beijing, 04/2005 114 Conclusion Large spectrum of apps is already achieved Important thing to do yet : Inventory the missing apps / services Understand how to port them Who can / must do it -Cisco, Beijing, 04/2005 115 44
Building Internetv6 EU : Intercontinental links GEANT : Abilene, USA Canarie, CA SINET, JP RENATER : WIDE, JP APAN, TEIN2 Senegal, Opentransit NTT, JP IXes! Lot of others -Cisco, Beijing, 04/2005 117 45
TEIN project -Cisco, Beijing, 04/2005 118 TEIN /2 Phase 1 : Paris, Fr - Seoul, Kr link For Internet connectivity between «Asia» and EU Phase 2 : EU funding (10 M ) Emerging countries only eligible -Cisco, Beijing, 04/2005 119 46
Global native IPv6 Connectivity Native IPv6 -Cisco, Beijing, 04/2005 120 Agenda Introduction Back to the beginnings Academics story with IPv6 From testbeds to Production IPv6 services G6 & Renater s roles EU stepped in GEANT IPv6 Applications! Building the Internetv6 International connections (TEIN, Opentransit, ) Asia, Africa and Americas Experimental IPv6 multicast service Trends and tentative conclusion -Cisco, Beijing, 04/2005 121 47
IPv6 Multicast A world wide experimental network Agenda Motivations M6bone, M6Net, Applications and services Gateways, reflectors, -Cisco, Beijing, 04/2005 123 48
What is M6Bone? An IPv6 Multicast test network M6Bone started in July 2001 (Aristote association, G6 and RENATER) 28 networks & 50 sites Goals To offer IPv6 Multicast connectivity to interested sites Test and develop soft and equipments related to IPv6 Multicast technologies Be active in IPv6 multicast standardization and provide deployment recommandation (e.g. interdomain multicast) To deploy an advanced service on IPv6, in order to participate in the promotion of the protocol -Cisco, Beijing, 04/2005 124 Overview 49
M6Bone -Cisco, Beijing, 04/2005 126 -Cisco, Beijing, 04/2005 127 50
How to connect How to connect... Setup an IPv6 multicast router Connectivity Routing (MBGP, static...) PIM Multicast topology Applications and services Monitoring -Cisco, Beijing, 04/2005 129 51
1. Setup an IPv6 multicast router MRIB implemented (static + MBGP) 6WIND CISCO IOS 12.3(7)T, 12.0(26)S JUNIPER JUNOS 6.0...? No MRIB PC BSD + Kame pim6sd daemon Linux + pim6sd PC BSD + Xorp Hitachi...? -Cisco, Beijing, 04/2005 130 2. Connectivity IPv6 multicast starts to be deployed natively in some networks: GEANT NORDUNET UNINETT Need to bypass the routers not supporting IPv6 multicast IPv6 over IPv6 tunnels IPv6 over IPv4 tunnels IPv6 over GRE over IPvX tunnels Dedicated ATM PVC MPLS LSPs... Connection to an M6Bone POP -Cisco, Beijing, 04/2005 131 52
3. Routing MBGP (IPv6 multicast address family) Static IPv6 multicast routes Unicast routing table If unicast and multicast topologies are the same. Can be used for example inside a site. If unicast and multicast topologies are different, dedicated equipments for multicast must be used (M6Bone deployment started with RIPng) Routing is explained in details in the next slides -Cisco, Beijing, 04/2005 132 Routing policy Few ISPs provide IPv6 multicast service No possible to do the same aggregation for unicast and multicast Transit networks must allow up to /48 prefixes Sites must aggregate to /48 prefixes BGP peerings No private AS advertised in M6Bone -Cisco, Beijing, 04/2005 139 53
4. PIM Multicast topology PIMv2 SM / SSM SSM for FF3X::/96 group-range SM for others No MSDPv6 available Will never be as bottleneck in IPv4 world M6Bone is a single PIM domain -Cisco, Beijing, 04/2005 140 4. PIM Multicast topology Hierarchical RPs Global RP managed by RENATER NREN RPs Sites RP in some universities Global RP in RENATER Must be known on all the M6Bone routers Statically configured, the safe way BSR Scoped BSR deployed in 6NET. Some 6NET partners use BSR to receive RP information Old BSR deployed in MRIP Works as few sites connected -Cisco, Beijing, 04/2005 141 54
4. PIM Multicast topology Embedded RP under deployment RFC 3956 A new group-to-rp mapping mechanism RP address embedded in IPv6 multicast address FF7X::/12 address space Changes the model Need to understand consequences for ISPs and clients SSM The M6Bone network is ready for SSM Few applications available -Cisco, Beijing, 04/2005 142 5. Applications and services Every IPv6 stack supports MLD Necessary to run IPv6 multicast applications MLDv2 on Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris No MLDv2 support on Windows Any platform can be used for IPv6 multicast Almost no application supports MLDv2 Is relatively new Implementations will come with the need -Cisco, Beijing, 04/2005 144 55
5. Applications and services Videoconferencing : VIC/RAT, Videolan, Isabel, WM player 9 Radio broadcast : Freeamp Others : NTE, WB, MAD, SDR Reflectors To IPv4 multicast To IPv6 unicast -Cisco, Beijing, 04/2005 145 6. Monitoring Connectivity / Traffic ping6 SNMP -Cisco, Beijing, 04/2005 146 56
6. Monitoring Routing AS-Path-Tree -Cisco, Beijing, 04/2005 147 6. Monitoring PIM Multicast topology Beacon -Cisco, Beijing, 04/2005 148 57
Contacts M6bone-team@renater.fr Web-site : http://www.m6bone.net Collaborative web-site Architecture of the network Information about equipment s configuration Subscription form Mailing list : m6bone@ml.renater.fr Around 200 active and experienced people ready to help you -Cisco, Beijing, 04/2005 149 Multicast IPv6 in GEANT 58
Multicast IPv6 in GÉANT Objective: Native Multicast IPv6 across GÉANT Service ready for early 2005 Test done in 2004 in collaboration with Multicast v6 TF Request for specific mcast v6 features to Juniper Roll-out on going with the connection of NRENs to the multicast IPv6 enable core. -Cisco, Beijing, 04/2005 151 Current connectivity Native : SWITCH, Renater, FCCN, NORDUnet, JANET and SURFnet, REDIRIS, DFN and GRnet are connected FCCN, NORDUnet, SURFnet, REDIRIS and GRnet in native Rest in tunnels M6bone routes transit via Renater connection Native connectivity to Abilene -Cisco, Beijing, 04/2005 152 59
Internal monitoring: beacon -Cisco, Beijing, 04/2005 153 Future plans: Embedded RP Interdomain multicast IPv6: implementing embedded RP interdomain solution where the RP can be selected when setting a session Available in 7.0R2 Needs to be deployed in all the domains other vendors such as Cisco also support it -Cisco, Beijing, 04/2005 154 60
To finish Lessons and trends Long way to go Planning before making a decision Experiments and Pilote phases needed Most the basics are there Building the Internet v6 Dual Stack, the favourite way Only one stack is / should be needed -Cisco, Beijing, 04/2005 156 61
Tentative conclusion and recommandations Security concerns Transition mechanisms Management and measurement tools Addressing and allocation strategy -Cisco, Beijing, 04/2005 157 Informations Renater Web site (IPv4 and IPv6): http://sem2.renater.fr http://www.renater.fr/reseau/ipv6/ M6bone : http://www.m6bone.net/ G6 : http://www.g6.asso.fr/ -Cisco, Beijing, 04/2005 158 62
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