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Re: Failover IPv6 with multiple PA prefixes (Was: IPv6 fc00::/7 - Unique local addresses)


From: Tim Franklin <tim () pelican org>
Date: Mon, 1 Nov 2010 10:24:31 +0000 (GMT)

Surely your not saying "we ought to make getting PI easy, easy enough
that the other options just don't make sense" so that all residential
users get PI so that if their ISP disappears their network doesn't
break?

I've seen this last point come up a few times, and I really don't get it.

If you're multihomed with multiple PA GUAs, yes, you'd want each RA to track its corresponding WAN availability so your 
devices are using a prefix that has connectivity.

If you're a single-homed leaf network, why on earth wouldn't you want to generate RAs for your statically-assigned 
prefix all the time, regardless of the state of your WAN connection?

Regards,
Tim.


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