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Static IPv6 in GÉANT and Internet2 LSRStatic IPv6 in GÉANT and Internet2 LSRa joint effort by ARNES, DANTE, RedIRIS and a joint effort by ARNES, DANTE, RedIRIS and JuniperJuniper

TF-NGN meeting

Budapest, 17-18 Oct 2002

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GÉANT IPv6 deployment planGÉANT IPv6 deployment planactivityactivity

by the end of 2002– dual-stacked routers in Gdual-stacked routers in GÉÉANTANT– static IPv6 routesstatic IPv6 routes– part of these activities:part of these activities:

IPv6 land speed tests

dynamic routing in 2003

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Members of the teamMembers of the team

ARNES– Avgust Jauk, BoAvgust Jauk, Bošštjan Lemut, Matjatjan Lemut, Matjažž Straus Straus

DANTE– AgnAgnèès Pous Pouéélléé, Roberto Sabatino, Roberto Sabatino

RedIRIS– Esther Robles, David MartEsther Robles, David Martíínez, Miguel Angel Sotos Rodrigueznez, Miguel Angel Sotos Rodriguez

Juniper– Jean-Marc Uze, technical support (Bruno De Troch)Jean-Marc Uze, technical support (Bruno De Troch)

and many others

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IPv6 LSRIPv6 LSRpreparationpreparation

choosing hosts– hardwarehardware

• 1.1/1.3GHz 2xPIII CPU, 1GB RAM• Intel PRO/1000 XT and 82543 GE Adapter

– softwaresoftware• Linux (2.4 kernel)• iperf v1.62, wu-ftpd-2.6.2-/pure-ftpd-1.0.12-1, ncftp-3.1.3-4.ipv6.2

• TCP stack parameters• RAM disks

Juniper routers– JUNOS 5.3R2.4 and 5.3R3.3 tested by DANTEJUNOS 5.3R2.4 and 5.3R3.3 tested by DANTE– additional hardware: tunnel PIC (lent by Juniper)additional hardware: tunnel PIC (lent by Juniper)

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IPv6 LSRIPv6 LSRtest plantest plan

IPv4 performance tests

IPv6-in-IPv4 tunnel– with test routerswith test routers– with production routerswith production routers

native IPv6– single stream and multiple streamsingle stream and multiple stream– two paths:two paths:

• direct path Ljubljana – Madrid• long path via New York

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IPv6 LSRIPv6 LSRtunnel setuptunnel setup

GÉANTARNES M20

ARNES testM20

SI.GEANT ES.GEANT RedIRIS M20

RedIRIS testM20

bandera6.arnes.si avaricia6.rediris.es

GEth GEth

T T

IPv6-in-IPv4 tunnelSTM-4 STM-16

STM-16GEth

GÉANTARNES M20 SI.GEANT ES.GEANT RedIRIS M20

bandera6.arnes.si avaricia6.rediris.es

GEth GEth

T T

IPv6-in-IPv4 tunnelSTM-4 STM-16

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IPv6 LSRIPv6 LSRfirst pathfirst path

SI-AT-CH-IT-ES

2518 km

62 ms RTT

480/490 Mb/s

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IPv6 LSRIPv6 LSRsecond pathsecond path

SI-AT-NY-UK-FR-CH-IT-ES

14.800 km

229 ms RTT

350/400 Mb/s

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IPv6 LSRIPv6 LSRresultsresults

test transfer rate LSR mark

IPv4 460 Mb/s -

IPv6 tunnel on test routers

430 Mb/s -

IPv6 tunnel on production routers

370 Mb/s -

IPv6 single stream 480 Mb/s 1215 Tbm/s

IPv6 multiple stream 490 Mb/s 1233 Tbm/s

IPv6 single stream via NY

350 Mb/s 5154 Tbm/s

IPv6 multiple stream via NY

400 Mb/s 5894 Tbm/s

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IPv6 LSRIPv6 LSRentries in Internet2 competitionentries in Internet2 competition

single stream on first path - 1215 Tbm/s– accepted as a new Internet2 record (04 Oct 2002)accepted as a new Internet2 record (04 Oct 2002)

single and multiple stream on a longer path (5154/5894 Tbm/s)– submitted on 09 Oct 2002, but not accepted yetsubmitted on 09 Oct 2002, but not accepted yet

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IPv6 LSRIPv6 LSRconclusionconclusion

IPv6 forwarding in GÉANT comparable with IPv4

no problems observed on double-stacked Juniper routers

much more to be done to deploy IPv6 in the near future (dynamic routing, management etc)