[139409] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Implementations/suggestions for Multihoming IPv6 for DSL sites
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Owen DeLong)
Thu Apr 7 10:08:58 2011
From: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
In-Reply-To: <4D9DC14B.8090308@cis.vutbr.cz>
Date: Thu, 7 Apr 2011 07:04:25 -0700
To: Tomas Podermanski <tpoder@cis.vutbr.cz>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Apr 7, 2011, at 6:51 AM, Tomas Podermanski wrote:
> Hi Daniel,
> all IPv6 multihoming ideas are very theoretical today. None of them
> is ready to use. Shim6 looks very good, but it requires support on both
> a client and a server side. As you can guess, there is only experimental
> support for some operating systems. Microsoft and Apple doesn't support it.
>
Well, BGP multihoming works today quite well. It's no different from IPv4
and is a perfectly viable technology.
> A one possible solution I have found is based on a network prefix
> translation (NPTv6 http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-mrw-nat66-12). Using
> NPTv6 you can do multihoming that is very similar to multihoming based
> on IPv4 NAT.
>
You can also use thumb cuffs to suspend yourself from a rafter, but, I don't
recommend it unless you are into pain.
Owen
