--On søndag, november 10, 2002 17:15:16 -0800 Michel Py
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Harald,
Harald Tveit Alvestrand
This seems to lead me to one of two conclusions:
- Address lookup is significantly more complex in the
presence of site-local than if only global-scoped
addresses are used
- I mi
--On søndag, november 10, 2002 15:25:56 -0500 Dan Lanciani
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
As long as we are stuck with a totally non-scalable address allocation
system (remember, provider-based aggregated addressing consumes address
space *exponentially* in the number of providers in the service ch
I have no experience with BGP confederations, so I could easily be
wrong, however I was under the impression that the idea that BGP
confederations was to reduce the number of iBGP sessions (ie avoid the
full mesh iBGP problem), not so much address aggregation itself.
If this is the case, I think t
> Mark Smith wrote:
> Could it be argued that if there was a need for confederations
> in BGP to handle iBGP scaling, then there would a reason for
> site-locals to be carried by BGP, presuming a single instance
> of site-local addressing across the organisation ?
I don't think so. Although it is
> > Keith Moore wrote:
> > *of course* the government is full of it. this is news?
>
> I'm sure it's so full of it that they will be happy to remove the part
> of your salary that comes from government funds. I will make a pleasure
> to forward your opinions to the appropriate persons.
Our respo
> Keith Moore wrote:
> *of course* the government is full of it. this is news?
I'm sure it's so full of it that they will be happy to remove the part
of your salary that comes from government funds. I will make a pleasure
to forward your opinions to the appropriate persons.
Michel.
--
> Very Good. The next time there is a $50 M government contract, you can
> go see these guys and tell them their requirements are full of it.
*of course* the government is full of it. this is news?
but IETF's job is to design sound protocols and recommend sound
practices, not to do whatever so
Harald,
Harald Tveit Alvestrand
> This seems to lead me to one of two conclusions:
> - Address lookup is significantly more complex in the
> presence of site-local than if only global-scoped
> addresses are used
> - I missed something.
I think you missed the fact the dual-headed DNS you mentioned
>> Michel Py wrote:
>> This ignores the fact that many people will use site-locals
>> because addresses that are not publicly routable are a
>> requirement, and this regardless of the fact they have a
>> stable global prefix or not. Besides, stable global prefixes
>> do not exist today for end-site
> Mark Smith wrote:
> Does IPsec VPN tunnels / logical links influence any of
> the current site-local discussions ?
As you mentioned in your post, the VPN tunnel keeps the network convex
as it's no different than any other link, and only one site is needed.
Any serious network that does not have
I don't see how this could reach consensus. It appears to me that way
too many people here have forgot The Golden Rule of a successful
product, which is to keep the customer happy. IPv6 is a product, it its
success is a lot more tied to what customers (read: network
administrators) think than to wh
Harald Tveit Alvestrand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
|This seems to lead me to one of two conclusions:
|
|- Address lookup is significantly more complex in the presence of
|site-local than if only global-scoped addresses are used
|
|- I missed something.
|
|Comments?
I don't think you missed somet
> This seems to lead me to one of two conclusions:
>
> - Address lookup is significantly more complex in the presence of
> site-local than if only global-scoped addresses are used
>
> - I missed something.
I concur with the first conclusion. But the problem is not limited to
name-to-address lo
Forgive me if I am treading well-trodden paths here, but I am trying to
understand
It seems to me that using site-local addresses in applications means that
applications have to get hold of these addresses somehow; very few
applications are fed addresses directly by their users.
99% of app
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