Re: Throw me a IPv6 bone (sort of was IPv6 ignorance)

2012-09-24 Thread Adrian Bool
On 24 Sep 2012, at 17:57, Tore Anderson tore.ander...@redpill-linpro.com wrote: * Tore Anderson I would pay very close attention to MAP/4RD. FYI, Mark Townsley had a great presentation about MAP at RIPE65 today, it's 35 minutes you won't regret spending:

Re: Throw me a IPv6 bone (sort of was IPv6 ignorance)

2012-09-24 Thread Adrian Bool
On 24 Sep 2012, at 22:42, Mike Jones m...@mikejones.in wrote: While you could do something similar without the encapsulation this would require that every router on your network support routing on port numbers, Well, not really. As the video pointed out, the system was designed to leverage

Re: IPv6 Ignorance

2012-09-17 Thread Adrian Bool
On 17 Sep 2012, at 13:28, John Mitchell mi...@illuminati.org wrote: snip Given that the first 3 bits of a public IPv6 address are always 001, giving /48 allocations to customers means that service providers will only have 2^(48-3) or 2^45 allocations of /48 to hand out to a population

Re: IPv6 Ignorance

2012-09-17 Thread Adrian Bool
Hi, On 17 Sep 2012, at 15:02, Nick Hilliard n...@foobar.org wrote: On 17/09/2012 14:37, Adrian Bool wrote: It seems a tad unfair that the bottom 80 bits are squandered away with a utilisation rate of something closely approximating zero You are thinking in ipv4 mode. In ipv6 mode

Re: IPv6 Ignorance

2012-09-17 Thread Adrian Bool
Hi Mike, On 17 Sep 2012, at 16:04, Mike Simkins mike.simk...@sungard.com wrote: RIPE 552 (I think), allows you to request up to a /29 without additional justification if needed. Sure, but you're just tinkering at the edges here. 32-bits would be a more sensible allocation size to LIRs,

Re: using reserved IPv6 space

2012-07-13 Thread Adrian Bool
On 13 Jul 2012, at 17:11, Tom Cooper wrote: On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 11:05 AM, TJ trej...@gmail.com wrote: As an IPv6 newbie myself, I wonder how hosts handle link local, ULA and global addresses. For example, if you have some internal web traffic used for intranet use only, do you bind