[186004] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: DHCPv6 PD & Routing Questions
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Frederik Kriewitz)
Sat Nov 21 05:14:18 2015
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From: Frederik Kriewitz <frederik@kriewitz.eu>
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 2015 11:13:54 +0100
To: Jim Burwell <jimb@jsbc.cc>
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On Fri, Nov 20, 2015 at 10:35 PM, Jim Burwell <jimb@jsbc.cc> wrote:
> 2) What are the most common ways of managing the routing of delegated
> prefixes in the ISPs routing domain? Has a standard method/best
> practice emerged yet? Routing protocols? IPv6 RAs?
>
> One obvious answer would be routing protocols. In my brief googling,
> I've seen a forum post that seems to indicate that Comcast makes use of
> RIPng on their CPE to propagate routing information for prefixes
> delegated to it. Can someone confirm this? This would seem as good a
> method as any to do this, albeit with obvious security concerns.
We've build a small tool which watches the dhcpd6 lease file for
changes and injects the PD routes using exabgp (iBGP session with
corresponding IA_NA address as next-hop for the IA_PD prefix).
Best Regards,
Frederik Kriewitz
