University of Liège

I’m network team leader at University of Liege, and Eric Vyncke encouraged me to drop you a line on our IPv6 deployment status. I hope to read from your own IPv6 deployments in order to compare our experiences and help each other advance.

We’ve been running IPv6 for a few years on the IT staff IP range, and for the local network research unit (understand network "academics"), with a native v6 default route to internet thanks to Belnet, our ISP. We also host a v6 DNS server since a couple of years.

More recently, we provided IPv6 connectivity on our wireless networks, all over the campus. Every user of our "eduroam" and "ULg-Secure" SSID are now granted a v6 address as well as the classic v4. Some students associations (AEES and N-HiTec) also asked for a v6 connectivity, and so we provided (keeping in mind our IPv6-dedicated firewall, preventing them from wrecking havoc from their newly acquired v6 powerstation ! ;-) ).

Next step is more than probably having some servers running an IPv6 address. Our DNS feels quite alone... Our first targets are... our own network-team servers.

Hope this was of any interest ! Cheers, Simon