[148987] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Choice of address for IPv6 default gateway
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sander Steffann)
Fri Jan 27 03:49:29 2012
From: Sander Steffann <sander@steffann.nl>
In-Reply-To: <CACfxj5M=rq_do5ZaCa19qfHV-9jRi5QGwaQ3biqnZpdkLY3wvA@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2012 09:49:01 +0100
To: Jeff Hartley <intensifysecurity@gmail.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Hi,
> The issue of using FE80::1 everywhere (as the virtual IP in your FHRP
> of choice) is operationally a wash, in terms of perceived complexity
> from the front lines. Do people give me quizzical expressions the
> first time they learn/use it? Absolutely. But a small amount of
> "getting comfortable" with def.gwy subnet =3D/=3D the intentionally
> provisioned subnet is outweighed by the ease of "oh, it's the same
> everywhere now."
I agree. I only had problems with VMWare ESXi here. You can't explicitly =
specify the interface for the default route there. With VMWare ESX you =
could, but since VSphere5 we don't have that option anymore :-(
- Sander
