[141806] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Question about migrating to IPv6 with multiple upstreams.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ingo Flaschberger)
Sat Jun 11 22:15:34 2011
Date: Sun, 12 Jun 2011 04:15:23 +0200 (CEST)
From: Ingo Flaschberger <if@xip.at>
To: Randy Carpenter <rcarpen@network1.net>
In-Reply-To: <5346c432-e1a2-4319-8592-6305b2e215b1@zimbra.network1.net>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
> I have an interesting situation at a business that I am working on. We currently have the office set up with redundant connections for their mission critical servers and such, and also have a (cheap) cable modem for general browsing on client machines.
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> The interesting part is that the client machines need to access some customer networks via the main redundant network, so we have a firewall set up to route those connections via the redundant connections, and everything else via the cheaper, faster cable modem. NAT is used on both outbound connections.
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> With IPv6, we are having some trouble coming up with a way to do this. Since there is no NAT, does anyone have any ideas as to how this could be accomplished?
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> In a nutshell: how do you have 2 upstream connections, and choose between them based on outbound destination?
*LAUGH*
really interesting and funny.
my only idea is to have a 2nd ip and 2nd gateway at all "users"
workstations with explicit routes. (scales very very well, perhaps run some routing
protocol? ospf? :)
bye,
Ingo Flaschberger
