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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Interesting ... <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>We implemented IPv6 over an year ago and all seems well, we have not had any reports of any unreachable addresses. Is there a way to test whether or not this is an issue for us? I tried pinging a Cogent IPv6 address and an HE IPv6 address and both work OK for me but a simple ping6 test does not rule out potential problems:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>ping6 -n ipv6.cogentco.com<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>ping6 -n ipv6.he.net<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Mike<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:maroon'>A. Michael Salim<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:navy'>VP and Chief Technology Officer,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:navy'>American Data Technology, Inc.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:navy'>PO Box 12892<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:navy'>Research Triangle Park, NC 27709, USA<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:navy'>P: (919)544-4101 x101<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:navy'>F: (919)544-5345<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:navy'>E: <a href="mailto:msalim@localweb.com">msalim@localweb.com</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:navy'>W: <a href="http://www.localweb.com/">http://www.localweb.com</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:#C00000'>PRIVACY NOTIFICATION: This e-mail message, including any attachments, is covered by the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, 18 U.S.C. 2510-2521, and is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s). 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If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original message.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:24.0pt;font-family:Webdings;color:green'>P </span><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:green'>Please don't print this e-mail unless you really need to. </span><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:green'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> arin-discuss-bounces@arin.net [mailto:arin-discuss-bounces@arin.net] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Kerry L. Kriegel<br><b>Sent:</b> Friday, February 22, 2013 11:32 AM<br><b>To:</b> arin-discuss@arin.net<br><b>Subject:</b> [arin-discuss] Implementing IPv6<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>We received our /32 IPv6 block from ARIN awhile back but before we could do anything with it we needed to do some hardware / IOS upgrades on our backbone. We got enough of that finished last week that we decided to “roll out” IPv6 and see how things looked.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>After a couple days of trouble shooting why none of the engineers in our data center could reach their Hurricane Electric Tunnel networks at home (and vice versa), I stopped looking at our backbone and started looking at Google.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>It appears that the squabble started in 2009 between Cogent and HE is still in progress. I was wondering if anyone on this list had any “inside” information about the problem and whether or not there was an end in sight. It seems to me that having a disconnect between two major players is going to hinder IPv6 adaptation.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial Narrow","sans-serif"'>Thank you,</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-family:"Arial Narrow","sans-serif";color:red'>Kerry L. Kriegel</span></b><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Network Operations Engineer</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Cyberlynk Network, Inc.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Office: 414-858-9335</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Fax: 414-858-9336</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>