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Re: Internet Edge Router replacement - IPv6 route tablesizeconsiderations
From: Tim Durack <tdurack () gmail com>
Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2011 14:04:45 -0500
On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 1:55 PM, James Stahr <stahr () mailbag com> wrote:
Is anyone else considering only using link local for their PtoP links? I realized while deploying our IPv6 infrastructure that OSPFv3 uses the link-local address in the routing table and than the global address, so if I want to have a routing table which makes sense, I need to statically assign a global address AND the link-local address. Then I realized, why even assign a global in the first place? Traceroutes replies end up using the loopback. BGP will use loopbacks. So is there any obvious harm in this approach that I'm missing?
For now I have allocated /64s per p-t-p, but I'm doing "ipv6 unnumbered loopback0" I quite like how the core route table looks. It also lets me avoid "The Point to Point Wars" :-) Maybe there will be a good reason to go back and slap globals on there, but I've not been convinced yet. -- Tim:>
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- Re: Internet Edge Router replacement - IPv6 route table sizeconsiderations, (continued)
- Re: Internet Edge Router replacement - IPv6 route table sizeconsiderations Jeff Wheeler (Mar 10)
- RE: Internet Edge Router replacement - IPv6 route tablesizeconsiderations George Bonser (Mar 10)
- Re: Internet Edge Router replacement - IPv6 route tablesizeconsiderations Dobbins, Roland (Mar 10)
- RE: Internet Edge Router replacement - IPv6 routetablesizeconsiderations George Bonser (Mar 10)
- Re: Internet Edge Router replacement - IPv6 routetablesizeconsiderations Dobbins, Roland (Mar 10)
- Re: Internet Edge Router replacement - IPv6 route tablesizeconsiderations Owen DeLong (Mar 10)
- Re: Internet Edge Router replacement - IPv6 route tablesizeconsiderations Dobbins, Roland (Mar 10)
- Re: Internet Edge Router replacement - IPv6 route tablesizeconsiderations Owen DeLong (Mar 10)
- Re: Internet Edge Router replacement - IPv6 route tablesizeconsiderations Dobbins, Roland (Mar 11)
- Re: Internet Edge Router replacement - IPv6 route tablesizeconsiderations James Stahr (Mar 11)
- Re: Internet Edge Router replacement - IPv6 route tablesizeconsiderations Tim Durack (Mar 11)
- Re: Internet Edge Router replacement - IPv6 route tablesizeconsiderations Richard A Steenbergen (Mar 11)
- Re: Internet Edge Router replacement - IPv6 route tablesizeconsiderations Jeff Wheeler (Mar 11)
- Re: Internet Edge Router replacement - IPv6 route tablesizeconsiderations Joe Maimon (Mar 11)
- Re: Internet Edge Router replacement - IPv6 route tablesizeconsiderations Valdis . Kletnieks (Mar 11)
- Re: Internet Edge Router replacement - IPv6 route tablesizeconsiderations Joe Maimon (Mar 11)
- Re: Internet Edge Router replacement - IPv6 route tablesizeconsiderations Leo Bicknell (Mar 11)
- Re: Internet Edge Router replacement - IPv6 route tablesizeconsiderations Leo Bicknell (Mar 11)
- Re: Internet Edge Router replacement - IPv6 route tablesizeconsiderations Joe Maimon (Mar 11)
- Re: Internet Edge Router replacement - IPv6 route tablesizeconsiderations Pete Carah (Mar 11)
- Re: Internet Edge Router replacement - IPv6 route tablesizeconsiderations Owen DeLong (Mar 11)