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Re: Failover IPv6 with multiple PA prefixes (Was: IPv6 fc00::/7 - Unique local addresses)
From: Owen DeLong <owen () delong com>
Date: Wed, 3 Nov 2010 02:47:07 -0700
On Nov 2, 2010, at 3:26 PM, Karl Auer wrote:
On Tue, 2010-11-02 at 09:03 -0700, Owen DeLong wrote:About the only hack I can see that *might* make sense would be that home CPE does NOT honour the upstream lifetimes if upstream connectivity is lost, but instead keeps the prefix alive on very short lifetimes until upstream connectivity returns.Which is exactly what was being proposed when Tim responded that it would break the IPv6 spec.Yes it does. But as long as there is no upstream connectivity, it doesn't matter. Personally I don't think it makes a *lot* of sense, but it does make some.
Sounds like we're in violent agreement. Owen
Current thread:
- Re: Failover IPv6 with multiple PA prefixes (Was: IPv6 fc00::/7 - Unique local addresses), (continued)
- Re: Failover IPv6 with multiple PA prefixes (Was: IPv6 fc00::/7 - Unique local addresses) Christopher Morrow (Nov 03)
- Re: Failover IPv6 with multiple PA prefixes (Was: IPv6 fc00::/7 - Unique local addresses) Owen DeLong (Nov 03)
- Re: Failover IPv6 with multiple PA prefixes (Was: IPv6 fc00::/7 - Unique local addresses) Christopher Morrow (Nov 01)
- Re: Failover IPv6 with multiple PA prefixes (Was: IPv6 fc00::/7 - Unique local addresses) Jason Iannone (Nov 01)
- Re: Failover IPv6 with multiple PA prefixes (Was: IPv6 fc00::/7 - Unique local addresses) Stephen Sprunk (Nov 01)
- Re: Failover IPv6 with multiple PA prefixes (Was: IPv6 fc00::/7 - Unique local addresses) Tim Franklin (Nov 01)
- Re: Failover IPv6 with multiple PA prefixes (Was: IPv6 fc00::/7 - Unique local addresses) Tim Franklin (Nov 02)
- Re: Failover IPv6 with multiple PA prefixes (Was: IPv6 fc00::/7 - Unique local addresses) Karl Auer (Nov 02)
- Re: Failover IPv6 with multiple PA prefixes (Was: IPv6 fc00::/7 - Unique local addresses) Owen DeLong (Nov 02)
- Re: Failover IPv6 with multiple PA prefixes (Was: IPv6 fc00::/7 - Unique local addresses) Karl Auer (Nov 02)
- Re: Failover IPv6 with multiple PA prefixes (Was: IPv6 fc00::/7 - Unique local addresses) Owen DeLong (Nov 03)
- Re: Failover IPv6 with multiple PA prefixes (Was: IPv6 fc00::/7 - Unique local addresses) Karl Auer (Nov 02)
- Re: Failover IPv6 with multiple PA prefixes (Was: IPv6 fc00::/7 - Unique local addresses) Karl Auer (Nov 02)
- Re: Failover IPv6 with multiple PA prefixes (Was: IPv6 fc00::/7 - Unique local addresses) Mark Smith (Nov 02)
- Re: Failover IPv6 with multiple PA prefixes (Was: IPv6 fc00::/7 - Unique local addresses) Sven Olaf Kamphuis (Nov 02)
- Re: Failover IPv6 with multiple PA prefixes (Was: IPv6 fc00::/7 - Unique local addresses) Mark Smith (Nov 03)
- Re: Failover IPv6 with multiple PA prefixes (Was: IPv6 fc00::/7 - Unique local addresses) Leen Besselink (Nov 02)