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Re: IPv6 day and tunnels


From: Jeroen Massar <jeroen () unfix org>
Date: Mon, 04 Jun 2012 18:11:56 -0700

On 2012-06-04 17:57, Owen DeLong wrote:
[..]
If you're going to redesign the header, I'd be much more interested
in having 32 bits for the destination ASN so that IDR can ignore IP
prefixes altogether.

One can already do that: route your IPv6 over IPv4.... IPv4 has 32bit
destination addresses remember? :)

It is also why it is fun if somebody uses a 32-bit ASN to route IPv4, as
one is not making the problem smaller that way. ASNs are more used as
identifiers to avoid routing loops than as actual routing parameters.

Greets,
 Jeroen



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