1. IPv6 in Bulgaria Current status and perspectives Vedrin Jeliazkov, Luchesar Iliev presented by: Stanislav Spasov IPP-BAS / ISTF-NOC <noc@acad.bg>

2. 6DISS International Conference, 5 Mar '06, Kopaonik, Serbia & Montenegro 2 ISTF – The Bulgarian NREN Main objectives provision of high-quality networking services to Bulgarian academic & research institutions interconnection with the Pan-European and world research networks (GÉANT2, Abilene, TEIN2, etc.) dissemination of new information technologies among users from the educational, research, and cultural community

3. IPP-BAS / ISTF-NOC 6DISS International Conference, 5 Mar '06, Kopaonik, Serbia & Montenegro 3 ISTF – The Bulgarian NREN (2) Network topology 155 Mb/s international connection to GÉANT2 over 1 Gb/s total connections with external Bulgarian peers 50 – 100 Mb/s national backbone covers over 10 cities 20+ universities, the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, the National secondary schools network are connected Network Operations Centre hosted and operated by the Institute for Parallel Processing – BAS

4. IPP-BAS / ISTF-NOC 6DISS International Conference, 5 Mar '06, Kopaonik, Serbia & Montenegro 4 Quick Summary (1) Simplified transition methodology strategy Get an IPv6 address space allocation Deploy an IPv6-enabled router Arrange external IPv6 connectivity Enable internal routing Deploy security measures and enable basic networking services Enable IPv6 to end-systems Active IPv6 to applications (1) Slide Source: "Introduction to IPv6 protocol, South East Europe 6DISS Workshop, Kopaonik, Serbia & Motenegro,3rd March 2006, by Athanassios Liakopoulos (aliako@grnet.gr)"

5. IPP-BAS / ISTF-NOC 6DISS International Conference, 5 Mar '06, Kopaonik, Serbia & Montenegro 5 Quick Summary (1) Simplified transition methodology strategy as implemented in Bulgarian NREN: Get an IPv6 address space allocation (2001:4b58::/32 ) Deploy an IPv6-enabled router - yes Arrange external IPv6 connectivity - yes – to GEANT2 network Enable internal routing – partially - over three major links Deploy security measures and enable basic networking services – using the same ACLs as for IPv4 – no IPv6 specific security measures undertaken so far – work in progress; – only DNS and web services are IPv6 enabled Enable IPv6 to end-systems – partially on the NOC LAN – FreeBSD, Linux, Windows XP Active IPv6 to applications – future work in progress (1) Slide Source: "Introduction to IPv6 protocol, South East Europe 6DISS Workshop, Kopaonik, Serbia & Motenegro,3rd March 2006, by Athanassios Liakopoulos (aliako@grnet.gr)"

6. IPP-BAS / ISTF-NOC 6DISS International Conference, 5 Mar '06, Kopaonik, Serbia & Montenegro 6 RIPE IPv6 allocations for Bulgaria Currently only three IPv6 prefixes are allocated by RIPE to Bulgarian LIRs bg.mtelnet200403312001:1ac8::/32 bg.nat200404062001:1ae0::/32 bg.unicom-b200502012001:4b58::/32 The first two allocations are for major Bulgarian ISPs (MTel and Evolink) The third allocation is for the Bulgarian NREN (ISTF)

7. IPP-BAS / ISTF-NOC 6DISS International Conference, 5 Mar '06, Kopaonik, Serbia & Montenegro 7 Native international IPv6 connectivity in Bulgaria So far, from these three allocated IPv6 prefixes only ISTF advertises its own one (2001:4b58::/32, origin AS6802) worldwide: through the SEEREN link Sofia-Athens (01/Feb/2005 – 17/Mar/2005) through the GÉANT2 link Sofia-Budapest (from 17/Mar/2005 onward)

8. IPP-BAS / ISTF-NOC 6DISS International Conference, 5 Mar '06, Kopaonik, Serbia & Montenegro 8 sofia-broder: cisco7301-ios C7301-JS-M, Version 12.3(11)T3 sofia-access: cisco7206-ios C7200-JS-M, Version 12.3(11)T2 tarnovo-access: cisco2691-ios C2691-ADVIPSERVICESK9-M, Version 12.4(4)T1 plovdiv-access: cisco2691-ios C2691-ADVIPSERVICESK9-M, Version 12.4(4)T1 pleven-access: cisco2621xm-ios C2600-IS-M, Version 12.3(3) Several ISTF routers have dual-stack configuration: IPv6 deployment in ISTF’s network

9. IPP-BAS / ISTF-NOC 6DISS International Conference, 5 Mar '06, Kopaonik, Serbia & Montenegro 9 IPv6 deployment in ISTF’s network The central node at IPP-BAS is fully IPv6 enabled, including the NOC and part of the LAN of IPP-BAS (most internal traffic is actually IPv6) IPv6 traffic is also carried over three major links in the ISTF internal backbone: Sofia – Veliko Tarnovo Sofia – Plovdiv Veliko Tarnovo – MU Pleven (link configured yesterday)

10. IPP-BAS / ISTF-NOC 6DISS International Conference, 5 Mar '06, Kopaonik, Serbia & Montenegro 10 The latest IPv6 enabled link (deployed yesterday) RIPE DB info: Information related to '2001:4b58:67::/48' inet6num: 2001:4b58:67::/48 netname: ISTF-RC-MUPLEVEN-IPv6 descr: ISTF (NREN - Bulgaria) descr: Medical University - Pleven country: BG admin-c: GT116-RIPE tech-c: KS2418-RIPE status: ASSIGNED mnt-by: AS6802-MNT mnt-lower: AS6802-MNT mnt-routes: AS6802-MNT mnt-domains: AS6802-MNT source: RIPE # Filtered IPv6 deployment in ISTF’s network

11. IPP-BAS / ISTF-NOC 6DISS International Conference, 5 Mar '06, Kopaonik, Serbia & Montenegro 11 IPv6 deployment in ISTF’s network

12. IPP-BAS / ISTF-NOC 6DISS International Conference, 5 Mar '06, Kopaonik, Serbia & Montenegro 12 IPv6 enabled services at ISTF Primary/secondary DNS for acad.bg domain: ns6-a.acad.bg IN AAAA 2001:4b58:acad::3 ns6-b.acad.bg IN AAAA 2001:4b58:acad::9 Several WWW sites: http://netmon.acad.bg (network monitoring tools portal) http://bis-21pp.acad.bg (site of the Bulgarian IST Centre of Competence in 21 Century – BIS-21++) http://webmail.acad.bg (web access to local mailboxes)

13. IPP-BAS / ISTF-NOC 6DISS International Conference, 5 Mar '06, Kopaonik, Serbia & Montenegro 13 IPv6 enabled services at ISTF (2) Network monitoring tools (Looking Glass, SmokePing, RANCID, ntop, etc…)

14. IPP-BAS / ISTF-NOC 6DISS International Conference, 5 Mar '06, Kopaonik, Serbia & Montenegro 14 ISTF’s international IPv6 traffic volume ISTF’s international IPv6 traffic volume for December 2005 amounted to: 170 MB transmitted to GÉANT2 470 MB received from GÉANT2 When compared to ISTF’s international IPv4 traffic, it accounts for: ~ 0,0027 % of the total egress traffic ~ 0.0087 % of the total ingress traffic IPv6 traffic is rather low, but … what is the IPv4/IPv6 traffic ratio in other NRENs !!??

15. IPP-BAS / ISTF-NOC 6DISS International Conference, 5 Mar '06, Kopaonik, Serbia & Montenegro 15 Setbacks: Still not enough resources for end-user deployment at other places No enough qualified staff No sufficient motivation to deploy IPv6 ( not found The IPv6 killer application … yet ) While we are working on the first two, we can hardly influence the lack of The ‘Killer Application’ IPv6 deployment in ISTF’s network

16. IPP-BAS / ISTF-NOC 6DISS International Conference, 5 Mar '06, Kopaonik, Serbia & Montenegro 16 IPv6 deployment in ISTF’s network Little Tricks ! In order to stimulate IPv6 deployment in the Regional Centres we announced and provide unlimited IPv6 traffic bandwidth to the Regional Centres (whereas IPv4 traffic bandwidth is limited according to the respective contracts with the RC)

17. IPP-BAS / ISTF-NOC 6DISS International Conference, 5 Mar '06, Kopaonik, Serbia & Montenegro 17 The future Further deployment at the national backbone is planned, eventually to cover it completely Making IPv6 available to a larger portion of the end-users, especially where the protocol shows its strengths (e.g. the integrated security) Establishment of IPv6 peerings with Bulgarian ISPs is foreseen, possibly marking the beginning of a true nation-wide IPv6 backbone The progress depends very much on the available hardware and software, which is still inadequate – have a router to spare? ;-)

18. 18 Thank you! Vedrin Jeliazkov, Luchesar Iliev presented by: Stanislav Spasov IPP-BAS / ISTF-NOC <noc@acad.bg>