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Re: Why ULA: low collision chance (Was: IPv6 fc00::/7 — Unique local addresses)


From: Jack Bates <jbates () brightok net>
Date: Sat, 23 Oct 2010 08:54:35 -0500

On 10/23/2010 2:07 AM, Owen DeLong wrote:
However, deliberate routing of ULA will start small and slowly spread
over time like a slow-growing cancer. You won't even really detect it
until it has metastasized to such an extent that nothing can be done
about it.

Which is why all v6 templates really need to get this in as a discard/filter/etc, just as we do with RFC-1918. I'm not saying it is perfect, but based on how much bogon lists have hurt legitimate traffic, we know the templates are at least used.


Jack


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