Nordic NREN Jari Miettinen 21st NORDUnet Networking Conference Reykjavik, August 24 th 2003

The author M.Sc. from Helsinki University of Technology 1998, started in CSC/Funet later same year multiple resposibilities during the years, nowadays ”one of those backbone fellows” special professional interests: DNS, NTP, DDoS and IPv6 working as NORDUnet 6NET coordinator

Outline of the presentation Nordic IPv6 deployment status the IPv6 network special networking activities future directions and guidelines

Deployment status (1) official addresses in use: –SUNET 2001:06B0::/32 –UNINETT 2001:0700::/32 –FUNET 2001:0708::/32 –Forskningsnettet 2001:0878::/32 –NORDUnet 2001:0948::/32 6BONE addresses mostly abandoned

Deployment status (2) customer universities: depending on research interests yes/no services: experimental, early services available (ftp archives etc.) access: tunnels most used interface media, conversion to native links underway backbone: near production-class

Deployment status (3) active research field among technically oriented university laboratories and NRENs strong Nordic involvement in the 6NET project ( Nordic workgroup list and Web publishing area in

The IPv6 core network NORDUnet IPv6 star: common IPv6 core router with native STM-1 level links to each country, dual-stack in the backbone IPv6 over IPv4 tunnels as backup tunnels to some 6BONE sites world-wide connectivity: STM-1 to 6NET, dual-stack to IPv6 GÉANT RSN

Special activities - Forskningsnettet University of Copenhagen leading the activity multiple different Unix platforms running test services dedicated national ethernet-based test network

Special activities - SUNET operating the NORDUnet IPv6 core piloting hardware-based L2TPv3 IPv6 tunnels for customer access in backbone giving decicated FE interface internal IPv6 DNS

Special activities - UNINETT long-term interest and work in IPv6, separate national testbed in operation since 1998 special activity in wireless access and multicast research deployed IPv6 in the backbone (64 routers) 6to4 gateway, most services available present with IPv6 on the Norwegian IX

Special activities - RHnet IPv6 support enabled in the backbone ftp.rhnet.is Open Source archive available also with IPv6

Special activities - CSC/Funet core forwarding IPv6 with hardware using Juniper routers Nordic 6to4 relay service for experimenting present with IPv6 in the Finnish Internet Exchange (FICIX) piloting with the first dual-stack customers newsfeed over IPv6 up&running

Futureware IPv6 services development with customers finalize the basic carrier service mature the router OS code get more operational experience

Q/A something missing/wrong/needs fixing in the deployment? contact the author