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tknz

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#233763 1-May-2018 18:36

Hi,

In a bid to get ipv6 for some testing I've been doing on Slingshot UFB I setup a tunnel using a tunnel broker service by Hurricane Electric.

Their server is in Sydney and I noticed Slingshot have a crappy path so wondering if anyone there can comment / look?

Via Vocus IP Transit at work the path goes via Vocus Connect International Backbone and is around 30ms round trip to HE Sydney.

At home, it's around 160ms round trip because a weird megaport hop.

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Sounddude

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#2006247 1-May-2018 20:27

Tuikapo:

Thanks @Sounddude - the return path via 4826 makes sense, but wouldn't have thought an extra 100ms. It did the same at work today via 9503 when I had a quick look.

Access type is UFB, changed to slingshot just before Stuff Fibre / Devoli added v6, I mentioned earlier the reason I'm using an HE Tunnel Broker service in Sydney is win10.ipv6.microsoft.com Teredo service is rubbish from NZ. Around 700ms roundtrip to some v6 addresses and the teredo endpoint appears to be east coast US.

Enabling the HE Tunnel Broker as I've done works a treat but native be even better :) Happy to Pilot!

4826's paid HE port is in Los Angeles. So the return path would be HE Sydney -> HE Los Angles -> Vocus Los Angeles -> Vocus New Zealand. This would add the extra latency.

Even though HE could just pass the traffic directly over Megaport....

BGP (The routing protocol which works this all out) doesn't understand latency.

As for IPV6 on UFB, its on my todo list. (very high up)

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