[153325] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IPv6 day and tunnels
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeroen Massar)
Mon Jun 4 21:13:04 2012
Date: Mon, 04 Jun 2012 18:11:56 -0700
From: Jeroen Massar <jeroen@unfix.org>
To: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
In-Reply-To: <0E60355A-88A1-4A8B-BF5E-248011FF7711@delong.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 2012-06-04 17:57, Owen DeLong wrote:
[..]
> If you're going to redesign the header, I'd be much more interested
> in having 32 bits for the destination ASN so that IDR can ignore IP
> prefixes altogether.
One can already do that: route your IPv6 over IPv4.... IPv4 has 32bit
destination addresses remember? :)
It is also why it is fun if somebody uses a 32-bit ASN to route IPv4, as
one is not making the problem smaller that way. ASNs are more used as
identifiers to avoid routing loops than as actual routing parameters.
Greets,
Jeroen
