[75992] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: who gets a /32 [Re: IPV6 renumbering painless?]
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joe Abley)
Mon Nov 29 13:43:02 2004
In-Reply-To: <2147483647.1101724596@imac-en0.delong.sj.ca.us>
Cc: North American Noise and Off-topic Gripes <nanog@merit.edu>
From: Joe Abley <jabley@isc.org>
Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2004 13:39:14 -0500
To: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On 29 Nov 2004, at 13:36, Owen DeLong wrote:
> ifconfig le0:1 <newaddr> netmask <newmask>
>
> YMMV depending on your operating system.
If the old address is removed, then TCP sessions established with the
old address as an endpoint will break; hence plumbing TCP sessions to
loopback addresses is not a solution to TCP survival over renumbering
attempts.
That was my point.
> --On Monday, November 29, 2004 1:28 PM -0500 Joe Abley
> <jabley@isc.org> wrote:
>
>> On 29 Nov 2004, at 10:58, Andre Oppermann wrote:
>>
>>> You can solve the renumber thingie by having all TCP connecting
>>> to/from
>>> an official IP on the loopback interface. Then the routing code
>>> could
>>> do its work and route the packets through some some other or
>>> renumbered
>>> interface.
>>
>> So how do you renumber the loopback interface?
