[89193] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: shim6 @ NANOG
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joe Abley)
Sun Mar 5 09:39:48 2006
In-Reply-To: <7A7359A6-CE54-45CC-8D9E-65A8921C6EBF@cisco.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
From: Joe Abley <jabley@isc.org>
Date: Sun, 5 Mar 2006 09:39:21 -0500
To: Roland Dobbins <rdobbins@cisco.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On 4-Mar-2006, at 23:48, Roland Dobbins wrote:
> On Mar 4, 2006, at 7:06 PM, Joe Abley wrote:
>
>> No support in big networks is required, beyond the presence of
>> shim6 in server stacks.
>
> Why do you say this? Enterprises who multihome need their client
> machines (tens and hundreds of thousands of them) to be able to
> take advantage of multihoming, as well. It's a requirement, not a
> luxury.
You're missing the context; by "big networks" I was referring to
those who are able to obtain PI addresses, following from:
On 4-Mar-2006, at 16:31, Matthew Petach wrote:
> And given that any network big enough to get their own PI /32 has
> *zero*
> incentive to install/support shim6 [...]
[I didn't mean to imply that enterprise networks weren't big or
complicated.]
Joe
