Anyway, the bottom line is: running with multiple simultaneous
prefixes is absolutely standard use of IPv6 (and highly
unusual with IPv4). This is one of the features that people
will figure out how to use, as time goes on.
Brian
On 2009-10-02 02:42, Tim Chown wrote:
> Or temporary use of multiple prefixes for renumbering (rfc4192).
>
> Some rogue RA deprecation tools might also use this (eg. rafixd/ramond).
>
> I am not aware of ULAs being used commonly (read: not aware of use
> in any campus environment as yet).
>
> tim
>
> On Thu, Oct 01, 2009 at 09:37:16AM -0400, Christopher Morrow wrote:
>> On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 8:35 AM, TJ <trej...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Off the top of my head: A link that has multiple prefixes assigned to it;
>>> perhaps a Global and a ULA or simply multiple Globals ...
>> right, like the original 'how to multihome in ipv6', one router
>> interface, 1 prefix from each upstream provider, auto-conf enabled ==
>> many prefixes in RA (or perhaps many RA's each with their own
>> prefix/default-route info, which may get confusing 'am I on X or Y or
>> Z?')
>>
>> -chris
>>
>>> On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 8:00 AM, Vijayrajan ranganathan <vija...@gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>> Perhaps a naive question, but can somebody mention some practical use
>>>> cases for advertising multiple prefixes in a Router Advertisement?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks & Regards
>>>> Vijay
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