This site is dedicated to the efforts of RESTENA in the field of the new Internet protocol IPv6 undertaken in the years 2000-2003. Currently IPv6 has become a semi-production service within RESTENA, and its full deploiment is being slowed down by the lack of IPv6 support from various network vendors.

History

This section lists the key events of the initial IPv6 deploiement at RESTENA:

• in July 2000 a SLA (3ffe:604:10::/48) got assigned to RESTENA by SURFnet (NL).
• in July 2000 the first static IPv6 tunnel (IPv6inIPv4) to SURFnet got established. RESTENA was connected to the 6bone.
• in February 2001 RESTENA started its active participation in the new GEANT IPv6 Test Programme (GTPv6).
• in June 2001 a NLA (3ffe:8039::/34) got assigned to RESTENA by the Quantum IPv6 Test Programme (QTPv6). QTPv6 is the predecessor of GTPv6.
• in July 2001 RESTENA got connected to QTPv6 via a BGP4+ IPv6 tunnel (IPv6inIPv4).
• in February 2002 the static connection to SURFnet has been renumbered and changed into a BGP4+ tunnel.
• in April 2002 RESTENA got assigned a NLA (3ffe:2024:2000/35) by SWITCH (CH).
• in April 2002 a BGP4+ IPv6 tunnel (IPv6inIPv4) has been established between SWITCH and RESTENA.
• the 25th April 2002, the 6bone pTLA 3FFE:4004::/32 got allocated to RESTENA.
• in May 2002 a BGP4+ tunnel to the Juniper M5 router in Paris got established. This router is hosted by RENATER and used for testing purposes in the context of GTPv6.
• in May 2002 a BGP4+ tunnel to NDSoftware in Paris got set up.
• the 18th November 2002, RESTENA received the global IPv6 allocation 2001:A18::/32 from the RIPE NCC.
• since June 17th, 2003, a native IPv6 BGP peering between RESTENA and the GEANT network is established.