[136946] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: quietly....
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jack Bates)
Sun Feb 6 19:41:02 2011
Date: Sun, 06 Feb 2011 18:40:43 -0600
From: Jack Bates <jbates@brightok.net>
To: Joe Abley <jabley@hopcount.ca>
In-Reply-To: <EDCB6095-2906-419F-93B4-1C5281AE5BED@hopcount.ca>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 2/6/2011 6:13 PM, Joe Abley wrote:
>
> I'm not sure this is the nightmare people think it will be.
>
> In my (admittedly fairly small-scale) experience with operating v6 on real networks, being able to figure out a prefix from a schema such as
>
> ARIN:ARIN:SITE:VLAN::/64
>
> makes things a lot easier. Having to remember ...::1, or ...::2, or ...:3 for the statically-numbered routers on the VLAN doesn't exactly make things much harder. Mix in some special cases (e.g. VLAN=0 for loopbacks) and you have a recipe that's pretty trivial to remember.
>
As an ISP, we reserved the first /48 of several of our /32's for
specific purposes, which makes it even easier. Our helpdesk will be
running ping by number tests (for detecting IPv6 connectivity but DNS
being broken) using:
ARIN:ARIN::/64
Which makes it as easy as IPv4. This was made easier by the fact that
our allocation has no letters.
Jack
