A 100Mb/s link was installed on October 12 connecting Cooperix.net's facility to the Ottawa peering point, Ottix.net.
The link carries IPv4 traffic to a number of Ottawa area ISPs, as well to the federal GigaPOP (and many federal departments), the NRC, as well as Universities and colleges. Talking to local people should faster, except of course, if they are on a monopoly ISP like Bell Sympatico or Rogers.
As well as IPv4 traffic, there is now native IPv6 traffic flowing over the link. If you have an assigned IPv4 address, you can get an automatic IPv6 address by either loading ipv6 support (under Linux: insmod ipv6), or on *BSD, you can start "rtsold".
If you want a static IPv6, take the prefix that is given, and append your IPv4 last octet to it. So, if you are 1.2.3.4, then your static IPv6 address
See the graphs at http://www.cooperix.net/ for traffic flow trends.
Ottix.net, the local IX is now back online. There were cable issues at 250 Albert Street (broiled in politics), and they have finally been resolved. It took 6 months to have 6" of fibre connected.
This means that traffic to other Ottawa ISPs and the like may in fact stay in Ottawa as various ISPs reconnect. So far, NRC, CRC, Agriculture Canada, and the F.root-server.net are reachable:
cod-[~] mcr 1007 %mtr -4 -r ftp.nrc.ca HOST: cod.sandelman.ca Loss% Snt Last Avg Best Wrst StDev
- oceania.cooperix.net 0.0% 10 0.2 1.0 0.2 8.5 2.6
(note that ftp.nrc.ca is also reachable over IPv6, using a much longer route that unfortunately goes via Japan. This will be resolved very soon)
I hope that other ISPs will soon reconnect.
We have put www.cooperix.net back online.
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