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Re: Comcast enables 6to4 relays

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Franck Martin)
Tue Aug 31 03:20:30 2010

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From: Franck Martin <franck@genius.com>
To: Jeroen Massar <jeroen@unfix.org>
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I think this http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/nsp/ipv6/13537

may answer some of the questions on how to make it work correctly.

I like the fact the 6to4 gateway should be on a separate machine that BGP with the main router. If the gateway dies, the routes are withdrawn and clients go and look for another gateway somewhere else....

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jeroen Massar" <jeroen@unfix.org>
To: "Mitchell Warden" <wardenm@wardenm.net>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Sent: Tuesday, 31 August, 2010 6:46:52 PM
Subject: Re: Comcast enables 6to4 relays

On 2010-08-31 08:22, Mitchell Warden wrote:
[..]
> Is there a reason not to advertise more specific prefixes from 2002::/16 to ensure that traffic for your v4 routes comes back to your own 6to4 router?
> 
> If for example all my users have v4 addresses in 192.0.2.0/24, I could advertise 2002:C002:0000::/40 instead of or in addition to the full 2002::/16.

The RFC forbids that with a good reason, as then we'll end up importing
the IPv4 BGP table into IPv6... not something we want to see (unless one
loves to import 300k routes in there, I guess people will really start
whining about that though ;).

Greets,
 Jeroen



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