[160834] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: bgp for ipv6 question
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Owen DeLong)
Thu Feb 14 16:22:08 2013
From: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
In-Reply-To: <1360875490.2832.1.camel@karl>
Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2013 13:18:24 -0800
To: Karl Auer <kauer@biplane.com.au>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Feb 14, 2013, at 12:58 , Karl Auer <kauer@biplane.com.au> wrote:
> On Thu, 2013-02-14 at 08:08 -0500, Jared Mauch wrote:
>> I recommend keeping your network as congruent between IPv4 and IPv6 =
as possible, with dual-stack.
>=20
> Why?
>=20
For one thing, doing otherwise violates the principle of least =
astonishment.
Other reasons include simplified network diagrams, improved reliability, =
easier troubleshooting,
reduced complexity, and often lower costs of operations.
Owen
