[141913] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Question about migrating to IPv6 with multiple upstreams.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Owen DeLong)
Tue Jun 14 04:35:24 2011
From: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
In-Reply-To: <BANLkTinRByZ_Ab3ETViq1J4u3OX+Hi-nqQ@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2011 01:34:03 -0700
To: William Herrin <bill@herrin.us>
Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Jun 13, 2011, at 9:28 PM, William Herrin wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 8:48 PM, Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com> wrote:
>> The vastly better option is to obtain a prefix and ASN from ARIN and =
merely trade BGP with your
>> upstream providers.
>=20
> My "(cheap) cable modem for general browsing" provider wouldn't even
> delegate RDNS; they'd only put PTRs in *their* servers. Swap BGP
> routes with them? Swell dream.
>=20
Or work around it with a free tunnel to a nearby tunnel service that =
does
support BGP and will give you a /48.
> This has become a common strategy: the cheap, fast, commodity service
> for the most-of-the-time that it's working and the most-of-the-stuff
> that it works for combined with the expensive and slow but reliable
> and full featured service for the mission critical apps. One of these
> isn't going to come with BGP and a PI prefix, and the technologies we
> deploy are going to have to deal with that.
>=20
Yep. For IPv6, there are options.
Owen
