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Re: Addressing plan exercise for our IPv6 course
From: Matthew Kaufman <matthew () matthew at>
Date: Sat, 24 Jul 2010 08:50:28 -0700
Owen DeLong wrote:
Because, although one of the original goals of IPv6 was for hosts to be easily multihomed at multiple addresses like this, host software (and even some of the required specifications) isn't really isn't there yet, and often the wrong thing happens.Why on earth would you do that? Why not just put the provider-assigned addresses on the interfaces along side the ULA addresses? Using ULA in that manner is horribly kludgy and utterly unnecessary.
Never mind that the timescale for IPv6 deployment, no matter how long it is, will be shorter than the timescale for updating PCI, HIPPA, and SOX audit checklists to remove the requirements around "hide internal topology" and "do not use public addresses on any interface of critical hosts".
This would *also* require multihoming to actually work properly, only worse as the rules for selecting ULA vs PA routes are usually more right than the rules for selecting one PA vs another PA as an outbound interface, even if your host does multiple default routes properly. Even if all your hosts end up with external connectivity that works, the odds that they can reliably talk to each other is low.Why is that easier/cheaper than changing your RAs to the new provider and letting the old provider addresses time out?
Matthew Kaufman
Current thread:
- Re: Addressing plan exercise for our IPv6 course, (continued)
- Re: Addressing plan exercise for our IPv6 course Jens Link (Jul 25)
- Re: Addressing plan exercise for our IPv6 course Matthew Palmer (Jul 25)
- Re: Addressing plan exercise for our IPv6 course Akyol, Bora A (Jul 27)
- Re: Addressing plan exercise for our IPv6 course Owen DeLong (Jul 27)
- Re: Addressing plan exercise for our IPv6 course Mark Smith (Jul 29)
- Re: Addressing plan exercise for our IPv6 course Tim Franklin (Jul 29)
- Re: Addressing plan exercise for our IPv6 course Valdis . Kletnieks (Jul 24)
- Re: Addressing plan exercise for our IPv6 course Saku Ytti (Jul 24)
- Re: Addressing plan exercise for our IPv6 course Owen DeLong (Jul 24)
- Re: Addressing plan exercise for our IPv6 course Saku Ytti (Jul 24)
- Re: Addressing plan exercise for our IPv6 course Matthew Kaufman (Jul 24)
- Re: Addressing plan exercise for our IPv6 course Karl Auer (Jul 24)
- Re: Addressing plan exercise for our IPv6 course Owen DeLong (Jul 24)
- Re: Addressing plan exercise for our IPv6 course Owen DeLong (Jul 24)
- Re: Addressing plan exercise for our IPv6 course Karl Auer (Jul 24)
- Re: Addressing plan exercise for our IPv6 course Mark Smith (Jul 29)
- Re: Addressing plan exercise for our IPv6 course Owen DeLong (Jul 29)
- Re: Addressing plan exercise for our IPv6 course Jens Link (Jul 25)
- Re: Addressing plan exercise for our IPv6 course Jens Link (Jul 25)
- Re: Addressing plan exercise for our IPv6 course Joe Maimon (Jul 22)
- Re: Addressing plan exercise for our IPv6 course Marco Hogewoning (Jul 23)