Re: who gets a /32 [Re: IPV6 renumbering painless?]

[Joe Abley <jabley () isc org>]

On 29 Nov 2004, at 13:36, Owen DeLong wrote:

> ifconfig le0:1 <newaddr> netmask <newmask>
>
> YMMV depending on your operating system.

If the old address is removed, then TCP sessions established with the 
old address as an endpoint will break; hence plumbing TCP sessions to 
loopback addresses is not a solution to TCP survival over renumbering 
attempts.

That was my point.

> --On Monday, November 29, 2004 1:28 PM -0500 Joe Abley 
> <jabley () isc org> wrote:
>
> > On 29 Nov 2004, at 10:58, Andre Oppermann wrote:
> >
> > > You can solve the renumber thingie by having all TCP connecting 
> > > to/from
> > > an official IP on the loopback interface.  Then the routing code 
> > > could
> > > do its work and route the packets through some some other or 
> > > renumbered
> > > interface.
> >
> > So how do you renumber the loopback interface?