[111419] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: v6 & DSL / Cable modems [was: Private use of non-RFC1918 IP space
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joe Abley)
Thu Feb 5 14:06:26 2009
From: Joe Abley <jabley@hopcount.ca>
To: Christopher Morrow <morrowc.lists@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <75cb24520902050634w53666517k20aae8ba09ffed94@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2009 11:06:16 -0800
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
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On 5-Feb-2009, at 06:34, Christopher Morrow wrote:
> to be fair, there are 3 options for multihoming today in v6 (three
> sanctioned by the IETF, not ordered in any order, not including
> discussion about goodness/badness/oh-god-no-ness of these)
> 1) multiple addresses on each device, one per provider
> 2) shim-6
> 3) HIP (still in development, as I recall)
4) Obtain PA space and do what you're doing with v4.
5) Obtain PI space and do what you're doing with v4.
(4) is problematic because filtering long prefixes in v6 seems to be
more energetic than it is in v4. (5) is problematic if you don't
qualify for PI space.
(For completeness.)
Joe
