Archive for 'IPv6' Category
IPv6 Access over Broadband – All of the cool kids are doing it
I know many who have used the Comcast IPv6 offer and were/are very happy with it. Now Verizon is starting with IPv6 over FiOS (http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/prnewswire/NY81426.htm).
I am stuck on AT&T DSL (service has been mostly stable) and have no access to Verizon or Comcast in my area so I am still stuck with tunnels using brokers [...]
Texas IPv6 Task Force – Houston
There is still time to attend the 2-day Texas IPv6 Task Force event in Houston. If you are local to Houston then you may want to show up.
November 3-4, 2009
The Planet
9AM to 4PM
315 Capitol Street, Suite 205
Houston, Texas 77002
http://www.txv6tf.org/?page_id=3
I will see you there,
Shannon
Yes kids, the Cisco IOS IPv6 General-Prefix feature is cool
The Cisco IOS IPv6 General-Prefix feature has been around for awhile and has not been that widely used until lately. I have met with several customers who deployed the feature during their pilot deployments of IPv6 when they were using an RFC4193 Unique Local Address (ULA) or some temporary IPv6 prefix such as the RFC3849 [...]
Dual-stack is Abandoned?
I am way, way behind on my entries and I am sorry about that. I am trying to catch up on IPv6 stuff as I have been blasting away at various Microsoft, VMware and Cloud projects.
On vacation last week I tried to get caught up on some reading and watched some archives of the recent [...]
VMware vSphere With IPv6 – First Look
My team lives in the world of Cisco, VMware and Microsoft. In addition to those vendors I focus on all things Enterprise IPv6. Based on that I am always looking for applications, tools, services, blah, blah that can leverage IPv6.
I have captured a few screenshots for the initial setup of VMware vSphere 4.0 over IPv6. [...]
IPv6 support in VMware vSphere
Our team is doing a boatload of testing with various Microsoft OS/Apps on vSphere and we will be enabling the new IPv6 functionality to see what is there and what is missing. Stay tuned as I report the goodness and not-so-goodness of VMware’s support for IPv6.
Part 1 – IPv6 drivers for the enterprise
I have been helping SP and enterprise customers with their IPv6 planning and deployment since about 2003. These customers have been from all over the world so I have gathered a variety of drivers based on geography as well as market segment. I have had more customer engagements in the last year than all previous [...]
IPv6 Deployment – Goals/Disclaimer
This is my goal and disclaimer for a multi-part series focused on deploying IPv6. I am an enterprise guy so the things I care about are related to IPv6 deployment in the campus, branch/WAN, remote access, internet edge and data center. We will walk through some of the top careabouts related this these ‘places in [...]