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Re: Implementations/suggestions for Multihoming IPv6 for DSL sites

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Owen DeLong)
Fri Apr 8 12:42:35 2011

From: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
In-Reply-To: <4D9F380C.30007@rollernet.us>
Date: Fri, 8 Apr 2011 09:39:19 -0700
To: Seth Mattinen <sethm@rollernet.us>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org


On Apr 8, 2011, at 9:30 AM, Seth Mattinen wrote:

> On 4/8/11 8:31 AM, Job Snijders wrote:
>>=20
>>> As Seth pointed out SHIM6 is still an academic exercise
>>=20
>> 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
>>=20
>> More information about LISP be found here: http://www.lisp4.net/
>>=20
>=20
> Ah, I completely forgot about LISP, which reminds me, I'd wanted to =
set
> it up for fun and learning.
>=20
> ~Seth

LISP can also be a good option. Comes with slightly more overhead in =
terms of
encapsulation/etc. than the GRE tunnels I use and has limited (if any) =
functionality
for IPv4 (which GRE supports nicely).

Owen



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