[111354] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: v6 & DSL / Cable modems [was: Private use of non-RFC1918 IP space
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Matthew Moyle-Croft)
Wed Feb 4 20:11:37 2009
Date: Thu, 05 Feb 2009 11:41:01 +1030
From: Matthew Moyle-Croft <mmc@internode.com.au>
To: Anthony Roberts <robertsa@arbitraryconstant.com>
In-Reply-To: <6b822fc7bca8dece2adcd10fdf678c6b@smtp.arbitraryconstant.com>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
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Anthony Roberts wrote:
> On Thu, 05 Feb 2009 11:08:44 +1030, Matthew Moyle-Croft
> <mmc@internode.com.au> wrote:
>
>> Let's face it - the current v6 assignment rules are to solve a 1990s set
>> of problems. A /64 isn't needed now that we have DHCP(v6).
>>
>
> It's needed to prevent people from NATing in v6, as they'll still want
> their stuff behind a firewall, and some of them will want subnets.
>
Why do we want to prevent people using NAT? If people choose to use
NAT, then I have no issue with that.
This anti-NAT zealotism is tiring and misplaced.
>
>> Setting the idea in people's heads that a /64 IS going to be their own
>> statically is insane and will blow out provider's own routing tables
>> more than is rational.
>>
>
> No larger than their ARP tables are now.
>
And ARP tables are propogated around networks? No, they're local to a
router.
MMC
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