[85823] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: And Now for Something Completely Different (was Re: IPv6 news)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Jakma)
Tue Oct 18 01:42:33 2005
Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2005 06:45:21 +0100 (IST)
From: Paul Jakma <paul@clubi.ie>
To: Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike@swm.pp.se>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
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On Mon, 17 Oct 2005, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote:
> Also, if everybody got their equal size subnet delegation from each
> ISP then it shouldnt be that much of a problem to run two
> "networks" side-by-side by using the subnet part of the delegation
> equal to both networks, but keep the prefix separate. If you switch
> providers you change the prefix part. This means we need new
> mechanisms to handle this,
Hmm, one thing that would be nice would be to seperate the prefix
from the host identifier in DNS, oh... wait..
> but I feel that's better than doing the routing mistake again.
It's all routing, just shifting different portions of it to different
places.
regards,
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