[131770] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Failover IPv6 with multiple PA prefixes (Was: IPv6 fc00::/7 -
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Owen DeLong)
Wed Nov 3 05:50:14 2010
From: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
In-Reply-To: <1288736782.12974.392.camel@karl>
Date: Wed, 3 Nov 2010 02:47:07 -0700
To: Karl Auer <kauer@biplane.com.au>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Nov 2, 2010, at 3:26 PM, Karl Auer wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-11-02 at 09:03 -0700, Owen DeLong wrote:
>>> About the only hack I can see that *might* make sense would be that home
>>> CPE does NOT honour the upstream lifetimes if upstream connectivity is
>>> lost, but instead keeps the prefix alive on very short lifetimes until
>>> upstream connectivity returns.
>>>
>> Which is exactly what was being proposed when Tim responded that it
>> would break the IPv6 spec.
>
> Yes it does. But as long as there is no upstream connectivity, it
> doesn't matter. Personally I don't think it makes a *lot* of sense, but
> it does make some.
>
Sounds like we're in violent agreement.
Owen
