LON01 – 07-06-2015 – 19:00 – 22:00 – Network Maintenance (IPv6) *COMPLETE*

In the above maintenance window we will be adding IPv6 support back to ACCESS01.LON01 after its removal during our previous network upgrades. We will also be enabling IPv6 on CORE02.LON01 to support IPv6 on our upcoming DSL network. IPv6 is already available on CORE01.LON01 for directly connected services and leased line circuits. No disruption is … Continue reading “LON01 – 07-06-2015 – 19:00 – 22:00 – Network Maintenance (IPv6) *COMPLETE*”

In the above maintenance window we will be adding IPv6 support back to ACCESS01.LON01 after its removal during our previous network upgrades. We will also be enabling IPv6 on CORE02.LON01 to support IPv6 on our upcoming DSL network. IPv6 is already available on CORE01.LON01 for directly connected services and leased line circuits.

No disruption is expected to IPv4 traffic or the network general.

UPDATE 01 – 19:00
Engineers have started the works.

UPDATE 02 – 19:50
IPv6 BGP sessions to our primary peer “Adapt” have been established along with our tertiary peer “Zen” Prefixes are being received on CORE01.lON01. A BGP session will now be created between CORE01.LON & CORE02.LON01

UPDATE 03 – 20:30
A BGP session between CORE01.LON & CORE02.LON01 has been created and is now in testing.

UPDATE 04 – 20:45
Testing has completed OK, however there is a problem with routing traffic to both Adapt & Zen. We are unable to pass IPv6 traffic to Adapt and we are not receiving a default route from Zen. Tickets have been raised with each carrier. At this moment in time we are not passing IPv6 traffic due to this fault. If a quick resolve is not provided then we will drop the effected peers.

UPDATE 05 – 21:20
While waiting for responses from upstream peers, we continued to investigate and discovered the ranges we where testing with where not announced within our internal V6 BGP session due to the use of a GRE tunnel. Network statements have been added and traffic is flowing via Adapt without issue from our test locations. No traffic loss would have been seen other than from our test locations and retract the previous statement about not passing traffic. We are still awaiting a response from Zen.

UPDATE 06 – 21:45
Due to time lost we have suspended the integration of ACCESS01.LON01. While technically there is less work to complete on this and could be completed within the window. We feel this should be rescheduled to avoid human error given this late hour and the concentration required when its comes to BGP!

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