[139447] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Implementations/suggestions for Multihoming IPv6 for DSL sites
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Job Snijders)
Fri Apr 8 11:31:59 2011
From: Job Snijders <job@instituut.net>
In-Reply-To: <BANLkTik_jxFABE8ky+v5tUoPdz9AtYJsKQ@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 8 Apr 2011 17:31:02 +0200
To: Michel de Nostredame <d.nostra@gmail.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Dear Michel,
On 7 Apr 2011, at 21:30, Michel de Nostredame wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 2:27 AM, Daniel STICKNEY =
<dstickney@optilian.com> wrote:
>> I'm investigating how to setup multihoming for IPv6 over two DSL =
lines
>> (different ISPs), and I wanted to see if this wheel has already been
>> invented. Has anyone already set this up or tested it ?
>=20
> In this environment, BGP exchanges with uplink ISPs for multihoming
> usually is not an option. One reason maybe cost, another reason maybe
> ISP doesn't like to setup BGP with a DSL customer. At least in my
> case, reason #2 always prevent my customers to setup BGP with uplink
> ISPs.
Agreed. Very common situation.=20
> As Seth pointed out SHIM6 is still an academic exercise
Another Locator / ID separator protocol is LISP. The advantage is that =
you don't need to=20
change the host but only the CPE. I've been using it to multi-home my =
house and it works
fine. I'm multihoming my IPv6 /48 over a v6-only DSL and a v4-only FTTH =
connection.=20
More information about LISP be found here: http://www.lisp4.net/
Kind regards,
Job Snijders
