IPv6 deployment – irc.ox.ac.uk and ntp6.oucs.ox.ac.uk complete

Posted on 2010-09-14 by Guy Edwards

Our targets for the IPv6 deployment for this week have been mostly successful Enabling IPv6 to first half and now the second half of the OUCS server room has been completed, we’ve had no complaints of disruption from other teams … Continue reading →

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IPv6 and related work over the next month

Posted on 2010-09-08 by Guy Edwards

We’ve a timeline of work for the IPv6 deployment for the next month which might be of interest to some and at the same time we’ve work updating the hardware and operating systems for certain core services. There’s other services … Continue reading →

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Implementing Spanning Tree

Posted on 2010-08-26 by Guy Edwards

Some of the IT support staff have taken the recently published IPv6 trial conditions quite seriously and we’ve already had two queries with regards to the spanning tree requirement. These queries aren’t disputing it but rather asking about specific behaviour … Continue reading →

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Machine Room IPv6 and checklist for early IPv6 adopters

Posted on 2010-08-24 by Guy Edwards

We’ve made some progress, we’ve reached agreement with the security team that we can enable IPv6 on the OUCS machine room hardware starting 7th September, which means we will be able to start making our core network services IPv6 capable. … Continue reading →

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The State of the IPv6 Deployment

Posted on 2010-07-15 by Guy Edwards

At the ICT conference I gave a talk alongside Bob Franklin from Cambridge. Bob covered IPv6 in general and then I covered a deployment case study using our teams deployment plans but trying to make it as general as possible … Continue reading →

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Update to our IPv6 Allocation Scheme

Posted on 2010-05-16 by Oliver Gorwits

After gaining some experience in configuring IPv6 networks, and also receiving feedback from others, I’ve revised our IPv6 Allocation Scheme. This is the document which lays out how we intend to allocate networks to departments and colleges, and other services … Continue reading →

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