Re: AAISP?
- From: David Taylor <davidt-news@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 4 May 2006 21:26:53 +0000 (UTC)
On 2006-05-04, Nicholas Thomas <ku.gro.snagap-erihskroy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
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First question - the P2P program she uses seems to open ports between
3000 and 5000 for data xfer between nodes. So I've used that complete
range for QoS and firewall rules, and set it to be specific to her IP.
Does anyone know of any standard Windows internet services that are
likely to be crippled by that? Or any other commonly-used (by
non-computer-literate folk ;) ) applications that will almost certainly
throw a wobbler? I appreciate, it's a broad range, and I should probably
go and RFC it, or something, but I thought I'd pick the excellent brains
on here first ;).
I'm not aware of any specific applications, but if you start seeing
weird problems with anything, don't forget about the traffic shaping!
Next, does anyone have any experience with AAISP & their service, etc?
Reading their website, it sounds almost too good to be true... and I'm
well aware of what that often means... specifically, I'm interested in
the level of know-how of the tech guys, the robustness (or lack
thereof!) of their network, amount of faffing about I'm likely to expect
from accounts, etc...
I've been a (very) happy AAISP customer for 2 years now, and I have to
say the service is excellent. Tech support and accounts are great,
you can even talk to them on IRC. There have occasionally been DoS
attacks that have caused short outages (say 10 minutes), but they
are continuing to work to reduce the impact of attacks.
Thirdly, and somewhat more generally, I notice that they've got native
IPv6 connections available, which is something I would really like to
have a play with :D. The downside, of course, is that I know almost
nothing about IPv6, except that I'd end up with a /48 block (corr!) if I
went for it. So:-
1. I assume it's a dual-stack connection?
Yep, I've got a ipv4 /29 and an ipv6 /64 routed down my line, with
the other 65535 ipv6 /64s available should I need to route them anywhere...
2. Currently my router only supports IPv4. Being poor again right now,
I'd probably settle for setting up a PPPoE forward on my current router
to a PC Engines WRAP that I've got, and set it up as an IPv4/IPv6
router. That's all, obviously, "non-trivial", and could take a while for
me to work out. In the meantime, would I still be able to use the IPv4
Internet with just the IPv4 router?
Yep. You can just use IPv4 as normal and ignore the IPv6, or you
can tunnel the IPv6 over IPv4 to a linux (or whatever) box acting
as an IPv6 router. Or get a linux/other-IPv6-capable router and
get IPv6 and IPv4 over PPP.
3. Just how easy is IPv6 to set up? This is a mixed Linux/Windows XP
(SP2, I *think*)/Windows 2000 (no idea as to SP) network. Presumably,
each PC would have two addresses for each interface - one ipv6, one
ipv4? So incompatible PC's (like the 2000 one, AFAICT) would just have
the single ipv4, and function perfectly well on the ipv4 backbone?
It's reasonably easy, once you know how. There is a bit of a learning
curve, though. But yes, PC's not using IPv6 can keep using IPv4 with
no problems. There is an experimental IPv6 stack for win2k, but I can't
remember if I ever got it fully working before moving on to winXP.
4. Is there actually any benefit (except for a slightly geeky feeling of
power at having so many IPv6 addresses at one's disposal) to getting
IPv6 at this point in time?
As far as I can tell, no. But the geeky feeling of power is quite good :)
It is handy to learn about IPv6 before it gets wider usage, if it ever does.
--
David Taylor
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