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Re: IPv6 Pain Experiment


From: "Valdis Klētnieks" <valdis.kletnieks () vt edu>
Date: Sun, 06 Oct 2019 17:58:39 -0400

On Sun, 06 Oct 2019 17:47:24 -0400, bzs () theworld com said:

All a strictly IPv4 only host/router would need to understand in that
case is the IHL, which it does already, and how to interpret whatever
flag/option is used to indicate the presence of additional address
bits mostly to ignore it or perhaps just enough to know to drop it if
it's not implemented.

So... how would a strict IPv4 router handle the case where 8.8.4.5.13.9/40
should be routed to Cogent, but 8.8.4.5.17.168/40 should be routed via
Hurricane Electric, and no you can't just route to wherever 8.8.4.5 goes
because there's yet another peering war and nobody's baked a cake yet, so
sending packets for either route to the wrong link will cause blackholing?

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