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Re: Fw: ipv6 newbie question
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael Still)
Wed Jan 29 13:44:56 2014
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Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2014 13:44:36 -0500
From: Michael Still <stillwaxin@gmail.com>
To: Philip Lavine <source_route@yahoo.com>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
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If only there was a best practices doc to help here... Oh wait there is!
http://bcop.nanog.org/index.php/IPv6_Subnetting
It doesn't specifically mention BGP so as to be protocol agnostic but
does recommend allocating a /64 and using a /126 or /127.
On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 12:35 PM, Philip Lavine <source_route@yahoo.com> wrote:
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> 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?
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> I have seen comments on both sides and am leaning to EUI-64 (except for the VIP's like the ASA's failover ip )
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> -Philip
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