[81913] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: OMB: IPv6 by June 2008
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Petri Helenius)
Sun Jul 3 14:25:05 2005
Date: Sun, 03 Jul 2005 21:25:31 +0300
From: Petri Helenius <pete@he.iki.fi>
To: peter@peter-dambier.de
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <42C81D88.9080207@peter-dambier.de>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
Peter Dambier wrote:
>
> David Conrad wrote:
>
> The good thing with IPv6 is autoconfiguration. There is no need to
> renumber.
> With the radvd daemon running your box builds its own ip as soon as you
> plug it in.
>
> If your box is allowed then give it a global address from the radvd.
> Your box does not care about the changed address. It will happyly use it.
>
Unfortunately the autoconfiguration did not fix the combined identifier
and network address issue both ipv4 and ipv6 have.
If it would have done that, multihoming would not be an issue with ipv6
today. (and probably neither with ipv4)
Pete
