[168539] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: ipv6 newbie question
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jared Mauch)
Wed Jan 29 12:47:59 2014
From: Jared Mauch <jared@puck.nether.net>
In-Reply-To: <1391016925.68774.YahooMailNeo@web140703.mail.bf1.yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2014 12:47:42 -0500
To: Philip Lavine <source_route@yahoo.com>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Jan 29, 2014, at 12:35 PM, Philip Lavine <source_route@yahoo.com> =
wrote:
=20
> Is it best practice to have the internet facing BGP router's peering =
ip (or for that matter any key gateway or security appliance) use a =
statically configured address or use EUI-64 auto config?
>=20
> I have seen comments on both sides and am leaning to EUI-64 (except =
for the VIP's like the ASA's failover ip )
We configure customers with a statically assigned IP address for BGP =
peering.
They get the IP assigned to them as part of the turn-up process.
The same process happens for "IP Classic" aka v4 as v6.
- Jared
(If you are a AS2914 customer and aren't doing IPv6 with us, don't =
hesitate to ping me and I will get your information over to that team).=
