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| World IPV6 Launch Day Last June 8 was World IPv6 Day, where participating websites and ISPs enabled IPv6 to see what would happen. This June 12 will be World IPv6 Launch day, where participating websites and ISPs will enable IPV6 permanently.
As I've posted before, Telus has been almost completely silent on the topic of IPv6. They did participate to a degree in World IPv6 Day, but only for telus.com. There has been no news whatsoever about providing IPv6 connectivity to Telus broadband residential customers.
On »www.worldipv6launch.org/faq/ there are links to two sites that can be used to test IPv6 connectivity. They are »test-ipv6.com/ and »netalyzr.icsi.berkeley.edu/.
As a test, I am connecting my PC running Windows 7 to the internet directly through the ALU modem with no router.
The results of test-ipv6.com are the following:
Test with IPv4 DNS record
ok (0.041s) using ipv4
Test with IPv6 DNS record
ok (0.041s) using ipv6 6to4
Test with Dual Stack DNS record
ok (0.047s) using ipv4
Test for Dual Stack DNS and large packet
ok (0.048s) using ipv4
Test IPv4 without DNS
ok (0.047s) using ipv4
Test IPv6 without DNS
ok (0.043s) using ipv6 6to4
Test IPv6 large packet
ok (0.052s) using ipv6 6to4
Test if your ISP's DNS server uses IPv6
bad (0.054s)
Except for the Telus DNS, everything is okay.
The results from netalyzr are too long to post, but there is a notable failure (in addition to the DNS issue also reported by test-ipv6.com):
IPv6 Path MTU (?): Warning
Your system can not send or receive fragmented traffic over IPv6.
The path between your network and our system supports an MTU of at least 1280 bytes. The path between our system and your network has an MTU of 1450 bytes. The bottleneck is at IP address 2001:1900:5:1::229. The path between our system and your network does not appear to handle fragmented IPv6 traffic properly.
I'm curious if this is a result of the backbone or the ALU. I'm assuming the backbone, but I'd like to see if the result is the same for someone running another modem (probably in bridged mode).
I wish Telus would be more proactive with IPv6 like Comcast rather than being virtually silent on this topic.
I wonder if any of the Telus insiders can shed any light on this. |
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hestonk
join:2011-11-17
Vancouver, BC | I believe TELUS does do IPv6 peering - its just a matter of whether we'll see this in residential backbone/homes in the next little while.
If you really want to run IPv6 behind your own router, you can sign up with tunnelbroker.net (HE.net) and get a tunnel working with them. If you use Google's IPv6 DNS servers too, you get access to some US content that you wouldn't normally get in Canada since HE's netblock is considered to be US.
You will need a router capable for running IPv6 though. Use DD-WRT, cisco, apple airport express....etc...
In terms of IPv6 Path MTU, you can use tracepath6 to figure out where the failure is occurring. |
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KillaB7
join:2006-05-23
Vancouver, BC
1 edit | reply to bimmerdriver
Telus' Ravinder Shergill will be speaking at the Global IPv6 Summit in a little less than three weeks.
»www.conference.cn/ipv6/2012/en/C···leID=567
Telus have added several IPv6 peers in recent months.
»bgp.he.net/AS852
I won't hold my breath, but my fingers are crossed for a big announcement. |
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| reply to bimmerdriver
My machine tested OK:
Test with IPv4 DNS record
ok (0.187s) using ipv4
Test with IPv6 DNS record
ok (0.167s) using ipv6 Teredo
Test with Dual Stack DNS record
ok (0.172s) using ipv4
Test for Dual Stack DNS and large packet
ok (0.124s) using ipv4
Test IPv4 without DNS
ok (0.170s) using ipv4
Test IPv6 without DNS
ok (0.218s) using ipv6 Teredo
Test IPv6 large packet
ok (0.140s) using ipv6 Teredo
Test if your ISP's DNS server uses IPv6
ok (0.170s) using ipv4
I'm using the Teredo tunnel which is available on all Vista and Win7 machines. For instructions on enabling see:
»www.yellowhead.com/IPv6_How.htm |
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