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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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