tools for ipv6 allocations
Hello everyone, it has been a little bit quiet on this list so i thought i break the silence.. has anyone experiences with commercial tools for ipv6 allocations ? (i mean in this case for a LIR that keeps its ipv6 number bookkeeping) or have you used your own written tools please let me know what you have been using if it is not a good idea to put this issue on the list then please answer me directly (without a copy on the list). Thanks in advance.. (and sorry if this is list-misusing).. Rgds, Raymond
Raymond Jetten wrote:
Hello everyone,
it has been a little bit quiet on this list so i thought i break the silence..
has anyone experiences with commercial tools for ipv6 allocations ? (i mean in this case for a LIR that keeps its ipv6 number bookkeeping)
or have you used your own written tools
Of course it all depends on what you alreadyhave and what you exactly want to do. I just want to comment that I don't believe in any 'standard' tool for this purpose. This for the simple reason that one will probably want to hook management of IP (v4+v6) addresses in that big customer & network management system that you hopefully already use. Having chunks of information here and there and all over the place is not going to scale (then again everything in a single thing doesn't scale either of course) not last for a long time, when there is something else you want to do with that data. As such, just integrate it into the system you already have... Greets, Jeroen
has anyone experiences with commercial tools for ipv6 allocations ? (i mean in this case for a LIR that keeps its ipv6 number bookkeeping)
A lot of people do write their own tools but Men and Mice is one that is commercial and does support IPv6. It's not really a question of build or buy here, since any reasonably large network will have to do some tool development around IP addresses, but if you can buy a commercial package that has hooks, then you solve the standard issues quickly and still have the flexibility to integrate it into your howmegrown tools. --Michael Dillon
We had a look at several IP Address Allocation Management tools and found that several of them are already supporting IPv6 in a fairly good way. But as Michael already mentioned, you should also have the possibility to customize these tools to your tasks and your network. Pretty good tools are IMHO INS IPcontrol, Men & MIce, Efficient IP, Incognito and VitalQIP from Alcatel/Lucent. But this may be a subjective feeling. BR Olaf
-----Original Message----- From: ipv6-wg-admin@ripe.net [mailto:ipv6-wg-admin@ripe.net] On Behalf Of michael.dillon@bt.com Sent: Monday, September 01, 2008 1:34 PM To: ipv6-wg@ripe.net Subject: RE: [ipv6-wg] tools for ipv6 allocations
has anyone experiences with commercial tools for ipv6 allocations ? (i mean in this case for a LIR that keeps its ipv6 number bookkeeping)
A lot of people do write their own tools but Men and Mice is one that is commercial and does support IPv6. It's not really a question of build or buy here, since any reasonably large network will have to do some tool development around IP addresses, but if you can buy a commercial package that has hooks, then you solve the standard issues quickly and still have the flexibility to integrate it into your howmegrown tools.
--Michael Dillon
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Bonness, Olaf -
Jeroen Massar -
michael.dillon＠bt.com -
Raymond Jetten