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Re: Internet Edge Router replacement - IPv6 route tablesizeconsiderations
From: Richard A Steenbergen <ras () e-gerbil net>
Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2011 14:27:32 -0600
On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 12:55:33PM -0600, James Stahr wrote:
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?
Traceroute replies most assuredly do NOT use loopbacks on most networks, and it would make troubleshooting massively more difficult if this was the only option. Imagine any kind of complex network where there is more than one link between a pair of routers (and don't just picture your own internal network, but imagine customers connecting to their ISPs as well) , and now tell me how you plan on identifying a particular link with a traceroute. The two words that best sum this up would be "epic disaster". -- Richard A Steenbergen <ras () e-gerbil net> http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras GPG Key ID: 0xF8B12CBC (7535 7F59 8204 ED1F CC1C 53AF 4C41 5ECA F8B1 2CBC)
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- 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)
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- 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)
- Re: Internet Edge Router replacement - IPv6 route tablesizeconsiderations Leo Bicknell (Mar 11)