Re: [v6ops] management and ipv6

[Jeroen Massar <[e-mail]>]

On 2010-12-17 20:27, Brian E Carpenter wrote:
> On 2010-12-17 18:31, Joel Jaeggli wrote:
>> On 12/16/10 10:49 AM, Jari Arkko wrote:
>>> In the course of discussing draft-arkko-ipv6-transition-guidelines in
>>> the IESG, Dan and other IESG members brought up the need to talk about
>>> management in IPv6 networks. For instance, in IPv6-only networks all
>>> your management tools have to be capable of IPv6, both in dual stack and
>>> IPv6-only you want your data models to support IPv6, in dual stack you
>>> need to monitor reachability and errors not just in IPv4 but also in
>>> IPv6, and so on.
>>
>> what version of netflow you use is also germain for example.
> 
> I think you might mean ipfix, in the IETF context. Making sure that
> ipfix is 100% ipv6-safe is important.

NetFlow v9 does IPv6, and IPFIX (NetFlow v10) does it in exactly the
same way, there is just a minor header difference in the packets.

That is the protocol though, if the tools actually understand it is a
different question, but by now I think most major tools have support for
IPv6 for both transport of IPFIX/NFv9 and the fields transported by it.

Now, getting physical gear that sends the exports transporting it using
IPv6 might be another thing though ;)

Greets,
 Jeroen