[154798] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: using "reserved" IPv6 space
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (-Hammer-)
Fri Jul 13 10:44:35 2012
Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2012 09:43:42 -0500
From: -Hammer- <bhmccie@gmail.com>
To: Jeroen Massar <jeroen@unfix.org>
In-Reply-To: <500033A5.4090707@unfix.org>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Leo/Jeroen,
Thank you both. That is the simple answer that I wasn't thinking
of. I'm not as IPv6 savvy as I need to be (yet) so I haven't put all the
pieces together when trying to look at the bigger picture. Thanks again.
-Hammer-
"I was a normal American nerd"
-Jack Herer
On 7/13/2012 9:41 AM, Jeroen Massar wrote:
> On 2012-07-13 16:38, -Hammer- wrote:
>> OK. I'm pretty sure I'm gonna get some flak for this but I'll share this
>> question and it's background anyway. Please be gentle.
>>
>> In the past, with IPv4, we have used reserved or "non-routable" space
>> Internally in production for segments that won't be seen anywhere else.
> There is this very nice concept called ULA (RFC4193), use it.
> If you want to be more sure about uniqueness, use
> http://www.sixxs.net/tools/grh/ula/
> or you can also just use a chunk of your 'global' prefix and don't
> announce a route for it and firewall it off properly.
>
> Greets,
> Jeroen
>
