Re: AWS Elastic IP architecture

[Christopher Morrow <morrowc.lists () gmail com>]

On Sat, May 30, 2015 at 11:38 AM, Andras Toth <diosbejgli () gmail com> wrote:
> Perhaps if that energy which was spent on raging, instead was spent on
> a Google search, then all those words would've been unnecessary.
>
> As it turns out that IPv6 is already available on ELBs since 2011:
> https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/elastic-load-balancing-ipv6-zone-apex-support-additional-security/

ah! I thought I'd remembered this for ~v6day or something similar.
cool! so at least for some LB services you can get v6 entrance
services.

> Official documentation:
> http://docs.aws.amazon.com/ElasticLoadBalancing/latest/DeveloperGuide/elb-internet-facing-load-balancers.html#internet-facing-ip-addresses
>
> Netflix is using it already as per their techblog since 2012:
> http://techblog.netflix.com/2012/07/enabling-support-for-ipv6.html

neat!

> Regards,
> Andras
>
>
> On Sat, May 30, 2015 at 11:04 AM, Owen DeLong <owen () delong com> wrote:
> > > On May 29, 2015, at 8:23 AM, Christopher Morrow <morrowc.lists () gmail com> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 3:45 AM, Owen DeLong <owen () delong com> wrote:
> > > > Yeah, if it were LISP, they could probably handle IPv6.
> > >
> > > why can't they do v6 with any other encap?
> >
> > That’s not my point.
> >
> > > the encap really doesn't matter at all to the underlying ip protocol
> > > used, or shouldn't... you decide at the entrance to the 'virtual
> > > network' that 'thingy is in virtual-network-5 and encap the packet...
> > > regardless of ip version of the thing you are encapsulating.
> >
> > Whatever encapsulation or other system they are using, clearly they can’t do IPv6 for some reason because they 
> > outright refuse to even offer so much as a verification that IPv6 is on any sort of roadmap or is at all likely to 
> > be considered for deployment any time in the foreseeable future.
> >
> > So, my point wasn’t that LISP is the only encapsulation that supports IPv6. Indeed, I didn’t even say that. What I 
> > said was that their apparent complete inability to do IPv6 makes it unlikely that they are using an IPv6-capable 
> > encapsulation system. Thus, it is unlikely they are using LISP. I only referenced LISP because it was specifically 
> > mentioned by the poster to whom I was responding.
> >
> > Please try to avoid putting words in my mouth in the future.
> >
> > Owen