[131639] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Failover IPv6 with multiple PA prefixes (Was: IPv6 fc00::/7 -
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christopher Morrow)
Sun Oct 31 12:45:09 2010
In-Reply-To: <F17E8577-4ECB-4ECE-8497-D4690B025C46@delong.com>
Date: Sun, 31 Oct 2010 12:45:05 -0400
From: Christopher Morrow <morrowc.lists@gmail.com>
To: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Sun, Oct 31, 2010 at 12:31 PM, Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com> wrote:
>
> On Oct 31, 2010, at 7:22 AM, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 21 Oct 2010 19:21:41 PDT, George Bonser said:
>>
>>> With v6, while changing prefixes is easy for some gear, other gear is
>>> not so easy. =A0If you number your entire network in Provider A's space=
,
>>> you might have more trouble renumbering into Provider B's space because
>>> now you have to change your DHCP ranges, probably visit printers, fax
>>> machines, wireless gateways, etc. and renumber those, etc. =A0And some
>>> production boxes that you might have in the office data center are
>>> probably best left at a static IP address, particularly if they are
>>> fronted by a load balancer where their IP is manually configured.
>>
>> "If Woody had gone straight to a ULA prefix, this would never have happe=
ned..."
>>
> Or better yet, if Woody had gone straight to PI, he wouldn't have this pr=
oblem,
> either.
ula really never should an option... except for a short lived lab,
nothing permanent.
