[98967] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IPv6 network boundaries vs. IPv4
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Iljitsch van Beijnum)
Mon Aug 27 11:24:08 2007
In-Reply-To: <20070826055629.GA8205@jeeves.rigozsaurus.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
From: Iljitsch van Beijnum <iljitsch@muada.com>
Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2007 17:23:12 +0200
To: John Osmon <josmon@rigozsaurus.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On 26-aug-2007, at 7:56, John Osmon wrote:
> Is anyone out there setting up routing boundaries differently for
> IPv4 and IPv6? I'm setting up a network where it seems to make
> sense to route IPv4, while bridging IPv6 -- but I can be talked
> out of it rather easily.
Why would you want to do that?
I've been tempted to do it the other way around, though. In a hosting
environment, you can end up with a bunch of /24s dumped on a
broadcast domain with a number of different customers but the
addresses so intermingled that you can't give each customer their own
VLAN. With IPv6, there is enough address space to give each customer
a VLAN and and address block to go along with that, which is a lot
cleaner.
