TY - JOUR
T1 - On campus IPv6 beta site
T2 - Requirements, solutions, and product defect evaluation
AU - Lin, Ying-Dar
AU - Hwang, Ren Hung
AU - Kulkarni, Raghavendra
AU - Tseng, Chinyang Henry
AU - Hsu, Chun Hung
PY - 2015/1/1
Y1 - 2015/1/1
N2 - Due to IPv4 address exhaustion, IPv6 deployment has been in progress and the transition from IPv4 to IPv6 has become more imminent. In this article, we report an on-campus IPv6 beta site coexisting with IPv4 networks and designed with requirements from its stakeholders. We conducted a wide range of test cases, from essential functionality tests to advanced stability tests which require complex interoperability tests and cannot be performed in laboratory testing. After one year of operation, tens of defects were observed and seven representative defects in dual-stack tunneling, IPv6 routing table, RIPng, and OSPFv3, are reported. Most defects are reproducible, and some could be fixed by proper configuration while others are caused by flaws in system design, memory management, or protocol implementation. We suggest careful configuration, overloading prevention, limited resource sharing, and robust error handling as the lessons to vendors and administrators of IPv6 devices.
AB - Due to IPv4 address exhaustion, IPv6 deployment has been in progress and the transition from IPv4 to IPv6 has become more imminent. In this article, we report an on-campus IPv6 beta site coexisting with IPv4 networks and designed with requirements from its stakeholders. We conducted a wide range of test cases, from essential functionality tests to advanced stability tests which require complex interoperability tests and cannot be performed in laboratory testing. After one year of operation, tens of defects were observed and seven representative defects in dual-stack tunneling, IPv6 routing table, RIPng, and OSPFv3, are reported. Most defects are reproducible, and some could be fixed by proper configuration while others are caused by flaws in system design, memory management, or protocol implementation. We suggest careful configuration, overloading prevention, limited resource sharing, and robust error handling as the lessons to vendors and administrators of IPv6 devices.
KW - Beta site
KW - Dual-stack tunneling
KW - IPv6
KW - OSPFv3
KW - RIPng
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84958150807&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.6138/JIT.2015.16.7.20130221
DO - 10.6138/JIT.2015.16.7.20130221
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84958150807
VL - 16
SP - 1189
EP - 1199
JO - Journal of Internet Technology
JF - Journal of Internet Technology
SN - 1607-9264
IS - 7
ER -