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Re: IPv6 network boundaries vs. IPv4


From: Iljitsch van Beijnum <iljitsch () muada com>
Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2007 17:23:12 +0200


On 26-aug-2007, at 7:56, John Osmon wrote:

Is anyone out there setting up routing boundaries differently for
IPv4 and IPv6?  I'm setting up a network where it seems to make
sense to route IPv4, while bridging IPv6 -- but I can be talked
out of it rather easily.

Why would you want to do that?

I've been tempted to do it the other way around, though. In a hosting environment, you can end up with a bunch of /24s dumped on a broadcast domain with a number of different customers but the addresses so intermingled that you can't give each customer their own VLAN. With IPv6, there is enough address space to give each customer a VLAN and and address block to go along with that, which is a lot cleaner.


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