Re: Recent navel gazing - we need to stop wasting cycles on FUD

[Tim Chown <tjc@ecs.soton.ac.uk>]

Hi Alain,

In what way are you seriously using 6to4 in a large enterprise?

I would estimate that 90%+ of the academic sites use manually configured
tunnels.  I don't know of any universities connecting to national
services with 6to4 (there may be some, of course :).

Tim

On Mon, Mar 22, 2004 at 03:04:22PM -0800, Alain Durand wrote:
> 
> On Mar 20, 2004, at 7:25 AM, Pekka Savola wrote:
> 
> >On Fri, 19 Mar 2004, Tony Hain wrote:
> >>6to4
> >>- Enterprise -> allows multiple subnet deployments behind the tunnel
> >>endpoint with a public IPv4 address.
> >
> >I don't think any serious enterprise would want to do anything as
> >unreliable as 6to4.  Just get a configured tunnel w/ prefix delegation
> >or native access.
> 
> I'd like to think of the company I work for as being serious.
> We are using 6to4. Not in the way you think, but we are still using it
> very seriously.
> 
> Your comment is out of place.
> 
> 	- Alain.
>