[143446] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IPv6 end user addressing
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeff Wheeler)
Wed Aug 10 14:12:00 2011
In-Reply-To: <201108101155.35498.a.harrowell@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2011 14:11:29 -0400
From: Jeff Wheeler <jsw@inconcepts.biz>
To: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 6:55 AM, Alexander Harrowell
<a.harrowell@gmail.com> wrote:
> Thinking about the CPE thread, isn't this a case for bridging as a
> feature in end-user devices? If Joe's media-centre box etc would bridge
> its downstream ports to the upstream port, the devices on them could
> just get an address, whether by DHCPv6 from the CPE router's delegation
> or by SLAAC, and then register in local DNS or more likely do multicast-
> DNS so they could find each other.
This would require the ISP gateway to have IPv6 ND entries for all of
the end-user's devices. If that is only a few devices, like the
typical SOHO LAN today, that's probably fine. It is not fine if I
purchase some IPv6-connected nanobots. Given today's routers, it is
probably not even fine if the average SOHO goes from 1 state entry to
just 20 or 30. I have about 20 devices in my home that use the
Internet -- TVs, DVRs, VoIP telephones, printer, mobile phones with
Wi-Fi, a couple of video game consoles, etc. I imagine that is not
atypical these days.
--=20
Jeff S Wheeler <jsw@inconcepts.biz>
Sr Network Operator=A0 /=A0 Innovative Network Concepts
