Building a 464XLAT home network to help getting to IPv4 literals

I’ve spent more than a few years over the years in various web-based rabbit holes online researching examples of how to try and remove any remaining barriers to turning off IPv4 on my (or any other) WAN. There’s plenty of resources out there but none that I found which completely explain the FULL end-to-end deployment. This blog post will set out to document that a little better for (mainly) future me to use as a reference but obviously for anyone that needs it to reference.

So, we need to talk about iNOG again and maybe it’s time for me to start blogging again. This blog site has been largely dormant for several years now. In fact it feels like this is something of a full circle moment. Back when I was a little more active updating this blog and adding blog posts, I was writing about iNOG - the Irish Network Operator Group and the in-person meetups of the group.

It’s the first working day of 2020 - a new year, a new decade. Just before Christmas I got a gentle reminder from Cisco that my CCNP needs to be recertified. Hence I am starting to get back into the groove of studying - it’s been a while.

Rather than simply try one of the ROUTE, SWITCH or TSHOOT exams again, I thought I would advance my learning by taking on the ARCH 300-320

This evening was “INOG” evening in Dublin, an evening I always look forward to, not least the quite brilliant event venues the meetings seem very often to be held in. INOG:12 was no different as we assembled in the really cool “Dogpatch Labs” located in the “CHQ Building”.

George Ryan - A New Tech Apprenticeship for Ireland - FIT

Following the customary introductions and “Code Of Conduct” was read out by [“Donal (@irldexter)”] (https://twitter.com/irldexter) the first talk this evening was from George Ryan. George is COO of “FIT”. This lightning talk had the sole purpose to make us all aware of the organisation and indeed the fact that they are operating a pay and learn Technical Apprenticeship programme and skills partnership.

This week I spent a tone of time working on my HOMELAN with a couple of goals in mind.

• I needed to road-test my employer’s “Agile Connect” SD-WAN product which is based on Nokia Nuage Network’s VNS SD-WAN offering and had to carve off a new VLAN to plug the NSG-E into.

and

• I wanted to ensure my HOMELAN was completely v6-ified once again following several months using Google Wifi without my hosts having native v6.

Connecting my NSG

There are a couple of us in BT Ireland that have been given the task of road-testing the NSGs and indeed our service wrap for this technology which has a product name of “Agile Connect”. The intention is that we have active familiarity with the technology when we are doing customer engagement and can demonstrate our orchestration and reporting portal with ease and comfort.

This week just gone saw #RIPE77 take place in the home of RIPE and the RIPE NCC - Amsterdam. Even since I attended my first RIPE in Dublin which was RIPE66, I have loved the event. For this reason I really dislike missing it.

With my change of role since 2016, attending the meetings are sadly not a core responsibility of mine for $day_job but that said, who in their right mind that has any involvement in the networking community ignores the meetings (amirite)? At any chance I get during the week, I either remotely participate in the live meeting or failing that, check back on the presentation archives after the fact. A couple of key and to me seminal presentations were;