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As the stats.labs.apnic.net/ipv6 code has reached a stable service, we’ve decided to retire the old labs.apnic.net/ipv6-measurement/ tree of graphs. For people with saved URLs, it should redirect to the new service, and should map an ASN or Economy to the right dataset. For people who are farming the site for…
The stats.labs.apnic.net/ipv6 web has just grown a new feature: it can now account for the ASN contribution to an economies visible IPv6, when the ASN is not ‘resident’ in that economy. For most graphs, this doesn’t change much. But for some economies, its exposing the contribution of some significant ASN…
The WAND group from Computer Science Department Waikato University presented on developments in libtrace. Code is available from https://github.com/rsanger/libtrace and provides for parallel processing of network captures, which is aware of the 5-tuple and can keep this bound to one thread. This has possibilities for being useful in lots of…
Jon Brewer for NSRC presented at NZNOG on the pacific networking scene. He did a really good job of showing how the pacific floor is covered by a mesh of fibre connecting the developed economies, but they have bypassed many of the smaller island economies. There are sound economic reasons…
Tim Nagy from Juniper presented on the virtual router model. This is when you take commodity hardware (PCs) and run a virtualized router image on it, to provide you with the same kind of functionality a real dedicated hardware router would do, but hopefully in a more scaleable manner for…
Dean Pemberton gave an impassioned talk on behalf of Andy Linton, about mapping the participants in peering at exchange points (IXP). The fundamental problem is that in NZ, a lot of local peering participants have not bothered to participate in http://www.peeringdb.com listings for the location. It lists only 20 participants…
Jed Laundry gave a brief impassioned call-to-arms. We need to stop expecting vendors to encode different systems and sell us different CPE when the actual need is for commonality, not difference. The way out is to push OpenWRT as a common standard with add-ons, and give the community a chance…
APNIC has recently deployed some changes to its RPKI service, and is in the process of continuing developments that will be released across 2013. This article discusses the changes, and what’s on the horizon early next year. Splitting the TAL A highly visible change to the APNIC RPKI system recently…
Measuring the Internet for fun and profit Since March 2010 APNIC Research has been engaged in a web based data collection, as part of an ongoing, wide ranging measurement of the Internet, to try and understand how IPv6 deployment is taking shape. This article discusses how we’ve been doing this…
