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Outline
• Why monitor IPv6?
• What to monitor
– DNS resolution
– Traffic paths
– BGP prefixes and routes
• Using IPv6 with ThousandEyes
– Cloud Agents
– Enterprise Agents
– BGP Monitors
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What % of traffic in the networks you manage is IPv6? n=34
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Why monitor IPv6?
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Why monitor IPv6?
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40%
60%
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Internet-Facing IPv6 Traffic in the US, 2017
Mobile
Consumer
Content
Source: Akamai, Google, Facebook, Comcast, Netflix
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What’s driving IPv6?
q Mobile network core
q IOS and Android
q Avoid NAT64, transparent proxies
q Consumer network core
q Modern OSes
q IPv6-enabled set top boxes, TVs
q IaaS IPv4 address exhaustion
q Azure, Google and Amazon
q Corporate networks
q NAT
q Firewalls and security rules
q SaaS
q Readiness of corporate networks
Leading Trends Lagging Trends
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What to monitor
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IPv6 DNS Resolution
• Monitor for AAAA records and NS
IPv6 connectivity
– DNS Server test for NS availability,
connectivity and record mappings
– DNS trace test for recursive
resolution and record mappings
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IPv6 Traffic Paths
• Example here from
Sydney to Netflix in
AWS Oregon
• IPv4 = 185ms
– 24-26 hops
– Telstra to San Jose,
peer with AWS
• IPv6 = 270ms
– 29-30 hops
– Telstra to Japan, HE to
Seattle, Quest to AWS
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Performance Comparisons
• 4 services with global
IPv4/IPv6 edge locations
– Gmail, Netflix, LinkedIn, Yandex
• Similar loss, except…
– Cogent has no route to Google!
• Latency varies by region
– IPv6 better in US, South Africa
– IPv4 better in Australia
• Similar jitter
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IPv6 Prefixes and Routes
• Options to monitor your IPv6
prefixes:
– Standalone prefix
– Covered and covering prefixes
– All prefixes that a domain resolves to
(GSLB)
• Set alerts for reachability, path
changes
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IPv6 with ThousandEyes
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Using IPv6 with Cloud Agents
43 Cloud Agent locations and growing
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Using IPv6 with Enterprise Agents
• Dual stack support (IPv4 and IPv6)
• 3 options to control agent settings
– IPv4 only
– Prefer IPv6 (all browser-based tests)
– Force IPv6
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Using IPv6 with Route Monitors
• 8 route monitors have full
IPv6 tables
– AT&T
– CenturyLink / Qwest
– G8 Networks Brazil
– IIJ
– Level 3
– NTT
– Telstra
– Tinet
– Verizon
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