Since we allready have IPv6 upstream through IPTunnel with AS20646 for a /40 of them (native isnt possible with our router connected to them, yet) it will only be a question of time until this uplink has fixed his filters.
But the goal is to get native upstream…. at this point AS3209 comes in place.
The first request by mail was ignored. So I was searching trough our documentations (yes, we have some :-)) and found the phone number of our contact there. The guy told me, he will see what can be done.
I got the callback some days later and the news wasnt like expected. The net development department stated, that this wont be in place in the next time … so far, so bad.
Some days later … I got the next call … they are interested into satisfied customer. He asked my to specify, what our goals are and what we need, after that it will come to a telephone conference. So I did write a friendly mail. :-)
Also some days later, I did remember, that on ipv6-ops mailing was a mail of one of their employee. So I decided to write him also a mail .. and what a success, this guy works in the network development department and we will have a telephone conference next week. So we will see, what comes up.. :-)
Last week I passed the course, what famouse news. ;-)
It is nice to know, what is needed to write ASN-, route-, aut-num objects and so on .. to autogenerate filterconfigs in theory. In the course, I got rtconfig segfaulting on the testground server. Yes .. thats good point to start. :(
This week I did modify our database objects and play around with rtconfig … as result … rtconfig didnt work as aspected. Many of the filterlists arent build, cause I got many “Warning: filter matches ANY/NOT ANY”. Maybe this an effect of our aut-num object, which reflects the outbound policy depending on downstream ASN with different prependings. But I’m unable to find any hints whats the real problem.
Maybe its rtconfig itself, cause I got it only running on debian/sarge with a backported package which I found there. The pkgsrc-package on NetBSD core dumped. Some investigation did unearth, that the irrtoolset depends on many old libs … how bad!
The question which comes to my mind … is anybody out there using irrtoolset in production??
We decided, after we will reach the next billing categorie 2007 anyways (you remember, we got /18 allocated), that it will be neat to request a /32.
I created a sweet address plan and got the allocation in less than 5 hours approved. :-)
In the last days, I did clean up our RIPE database objects and our files. The reson is … I did request new pa-ipv4 on wednesday. :-)
I did fix up the 2 files, which was requested by RIPE hostmaster and I got it passed. Also my IP plans was accepted, I did request /20 and /22 for broadband.
The great news … we got /18 allocated. STRIKE! :-)
