[154872] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: using "reserved" IPv6 space
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Grzegorz Janoszka)
Sun Jul 15 05:39:38 2012
Date: Sun, 15 Jul 2012 11:38:46 +0200
From: Grzegorz Janoszka <Grzegorz@Janoszka.pl>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <03b201cd6212$520ab820$f6202860$@tndh.net>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 2012-07-15 00:45, Tony Hain wrote:
> There is no difference in the local filtering function, but *IF* all transit
> providers put FC00::/7 in bogon space and filter it at every border, there
> is a clear benefit when someone fat-fingers the config script and announces
> what should be a locally filtered prefix (don't we routinely see unintended
> announcements in the global BGP table). I realize that is a big IF, but
There was also in the past fec0::/10. For BGP updates you should be safe
to filter out FC00::/6.
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Grzegorz Janoszka
