As requested by the IPv6 WG, some highlights of the UNH testathon. ------- Forwarded Message Date: Wed, 14 Feb 1996 13:14:53 -0500 From: Bill.Lenharth@unh.edu (William Lenharth) To: ipv6imp@munnari.OZ.AU Subject: [IPv6Imp] IPv6 testing at UNH IPv6 Group Test Period at UNH A group test period was held at UNH9s Research Computing Center9s Interoperabil ity laboratory during the week of Feb 5-9, 1996. In attendance were equipment and personnel from DEC, SUN, HP, Bay Networks, Ipsilon, INRIA (France), The WID E project (Japan), Hitachi, FTP Software, and Mentat, over 20 pieces of equipme nt and 32 people. Steve Deering was also in attendance as an observer, repres enting the IETF. A network was constructed by UNH consisting of three links connected with a sep arate router and the remaining connection on each router tied to a backbone. A router running only IPv4 was also connected to the entire network and then co nnected to the internet via UNH9s network. This router offered reliable commun ications during IPv6 router testing. Testing was conducted on each link and then across link through the IPv6 router s. UNH supplied a testing and monitoring system based on the RFC9s covering th e Base IPv6 standard, Addressing architecture, Neighbor discovery process inclu ding Duplicate address detection, Router advertisements - solicitations, and pa cket fragmentation and reassembly. As expected, problems with all implementations were located. The breadth of th e implementations were also varied, and therefore all tests were not run on all systems. UNH has been testing implementations of participating vendors since the fall Interop show held in Atlanta and there has been a marked improvement i n all aspects of those particular implementations. We welcome any comments or questions (whl@unh.edu). Those wishing to see a slide show taken at the test pe riod may do so by connecting to our web site, www.iol.unh.edu - under IP consor tium - 3Slide show of group test period2. Current plans call for another group test period in June of this year at UNH be fore the IETF meeting to be held in Montreal, Canada. UNH has also been contac ted by Interop and they have encouraged us to once again man a booth displaying emerging communications technologies. Current plans regarding the involvement of the IPv6 Consortium group are incomplete at this time. If there are any com panies interested in participating in an IPv6 test network at InterOp please co ntact us at whl@unh.edu. I will submit further information on IPv6 testing pl ans on this list as they are solidified ------- End of Forwarded Message