Dutch ISP Telfort ends its IPv6 offering

Ouch: It's 2014 and Dutch ISP ends its IPv6 service to its customers.

Telfort started an IPv6 pilot in December 2011 (see my blog post) and offered opt-in IPv6 to all its customers as of March 2013 (see my blog post). And all that ended yesterday, July 28, 2014.

As the reason for ending the IPv6 pilot, Telfort says it's moving to a new datacenter.

Telfort offers no clear plans for re-introduction of IPv6: Telfort refers to its dependency on mother company KPN, which does not offer IPv6 to consumer customers.

So: one step back for IPv6 and Telfort.

Dutch ISP Telfort conducting IPv6 pre-pilot based on 6RD

The Dutch ISP Telfort (www.telfort.nl) has started a IPv6 pre-pilot based on 6RD. 6RD stands for "IPv6 Rapid Deployment", and is an adapted 6to4 tunnel technology: in 6RD, the tunnel end point is defined, and is owned by the tunnel provider or ISP. This results in a more predictable and thus reliable IPv6 tunnel service. 6RD is used by the French ISP "Free", and others. More details on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPv6_rapid_deployment

Telfort offers the IPv6 service on two modems: the ZyXEL 2601HN-F1 (with BLV.7 test firmware) and the 2812HNU-F1 with TUE.2 firmware.

After applying for the pre-pilot, the user sets up the IPv6 service in his modem in two steps:

WAN-side: select IPv6, and then 6to4 tunneling with 6RD enabled:

Then IPv6 is actived on the LAN side:

The IPv6 address scheme is like this: 2a00:cd8:::/64. An example Telfort IPv6 address is thus 2a00:cd8:c3f1:66e2::1


... to be continued ...