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RE: An Internet IPv6 Transition Plan
From: "Durand, Alain" <Alain_Durand () cable comcast com>
Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2007 10:47:00 -0400
-----Original Message----- From: owner-nanog () merit edu [mailto:owner-nanog () merit edu] On Behalf Of Chad Oleary Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2007 10:02 AM To: nanog () merit edu Subject: Re: An Internet IPv6 Transition Plan Personally, I see v6 as something that needed and desired by the certain groups. However, when looking at the enterprise, for example, better solutions are needed for things like multi-homing, last I checked.
It is just the same multi-homing as v4. No better for sure.
Perhaps the biggest challenge, IMO, in this much more dynamic network, is DNS. How do I (or my new vendor) readdress every node at my site, and actually know what device has what address? rtadvd doesn't do DNS updates. DHCPv6 doesn't even hand out addresses.
This is not correct. DHCPv6 does hand out addresses. The status of DHCPv6 implemenations has improved dramatically over what it was 12-18 months ago. See the article in the IETF journal about the DHCPv6 bake-off we did at RIPE-NCC last March.
DNSSEC comes to mind, but that's a whole different story. Add, since a host can have many preferred addresses, which to use? How do deprecated addresses get withdrawn from DNS?
This is a very good point. Having multiple addresses per interface introduce a lot a complexity that is not well understood today. However, nothing forces you there. If you do not run ULA, but run PA or PI space, you can very well manage only one v6 address per interface. - Alain.
Current thread:
- Re: An Internet IPv6 Transition Plan, (continued)
- Re: An Internet IPv6 Transition Plan Randy Bush (Jul 23)
- RE: An Internet IPv6 Transition Plan Durand, Alain (Jul 23)
- RE: An Internet IPv6 Transition Plan John Curran (Jul 24)
- RE: An Internet IPv6 Transition Plan Durand, Alain (Jul 24)
- Re: An Internet IPv6 Transition Plan bmanning (Jul 24)
- RE: An Internet IPv6 Transition Plan Durand, Alain (Jul 24)
- Re: An Internet IPv6 Transition Plan bmanning (Jul 24)
- RE: An Internet IPv6 Transition Plan John Curran (Jul 24)
- RE: An Internet IPv6 Transition Plan Chris L. Morrow (Jul 24)
- Re: An Internet IPv6 Transition Plan Iljitsch van Beijnum (Jul 25)
- Re: An Internet IPv6 Transition Plan Chad Oleary (Jul 24)
- RE: An Internet IPv6 Transition Plan Durand, Alain (Jul 24)
- An Internet IPv6 Transition Plan Chad Oleary (Jul 24)
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- Re: An Internet IPv6 Transition Plan James R. Cutler (Jul 24)
- Re: An Internet IPv6 Transition Plan David Freedman (Jul 26)
- Re: An Internet IPv6 Transition Plan David Barak (Jul 26)
- RE: An Internet IPv6 Transition Plan Durand, Alain (Jul 24)
- RE: An Internet IPv6 Transition Plan michael.dillon (Jul 24)
- RE: An Internet IPv6 Transition Plan Barry Shein (Jul 25)
- Re: An Internet IPv6 Transition Plan Stephen Wilcox (Jul 25)
- Re: An Internet IPv6 Transition Plan John Curran (Jul 25)
- Re: An Internet IPv6 Transition Plan Stephen Wilcox (Jul 25)
- Re: An Internet IPv6 Transition Plan John Curran (Jul 25)