Re: Multiple Prefixes in RA

2009-10-05 Thread Alexandru Petrescu
Mark Smith a écrit : On Fri, 02 Oct 2009 16:49:27 +0200 Alexandru Petrescu wrote: Vijayrajan ranganathan a écrit : Hi, Perhaps a naive question, but can somebody mention some practical use cases for advertising multiple prefixes in a Router Advertisement? Let me give some more reasons which

Re: Multiple Prefixes in RA

2009-10-03 Thread Mark Smith
On Fri, 02 Oct 2009 16:49:27 +0200 Alexandru Petrescu wrote: > Vijayrajan ranganathan a écrit : > > Hi, > > Perhaps a naive question, but can somebody mention some practical use > > cases for advertising multiple prefixes in a Router Advertisement? > > Let me give some more reasons which are non

Re: Multiple Prefixes in RA

2009-10-02 Thread Alexandru Petrescu
Vijayrajan ranganathan a écrit : Hi, Perhaps a naive question, but can somebody mention some practical use cases for advertising multiple prefixes in a Router Advertisement? Let me give some more reasons which are non-standard. One could qualify them as research. I put several prefixes in a

Re: Multiple Prefixes in RA

2009-10-02 Thread Arnaud Ebalard
Hi, Vijayrajan ranganathan writes: > Perhaps a naive question, but can somebody mention some practical use > cases for advertising multiple prefixes in a Router Advertisement? I have an ULA prefix, a 6to4 prefix and a native IPv6 prefix advertised internally on my networks. RFC 3484 does the re

Re: Multiple Prefixes in RA

2009-10-01 Thread Mark Andrews
In message <5988ed3c0910010500i69d21db9p1a4c8c8b8539d...@mail.gmail.com>, Vijay rajan ranganathan writes: > Hi, > Perhaps a naive question, but can somebody mention some practical use > cases for advertising multiple prefixes in a Router Advertisement? ULA + Gobal Renumbering > Thanks & Regards

Re: Multiple Prefixes in RA

2009-10-01 Thread Brian E Carpenter
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 mul

Re: Multiple Prefixes in RA

2009-10-01 Thread Tim Chown
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, Christoph

Re: Multiple Prefixes in RA

2009-10-01 Thread Christopher Morrow
On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 8:35 AM, TJ 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-c

Re: Multiple Prefixes in RA

2009-10-01 Thread TJ
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 ... /TJ On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 8:00 AM, Vijayrajan ranganathan wrote: > Hi, > Perhaps a naive question, but can somebody mention some practical use > cases for adverti

Multiple Prefixes in RA

2009-10-01 Thread Vijayrajan ranganathan
Hi, Perhaps a naive question, but can somebody mention some practical use cases for advertising multiple prefixes in a Router Advertisement? Thanks & Regards Vijay IETF IPv6 working group mailing list ipv6@ietf.org Administrative