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

[Christopher Morrow <morrowc.lists () gmail com>]

On Sun, Oct 31, 2010 at 12:31 PM, Owen DeLong <owen () delong com> wrote:
> On Oct 31, 2010, at 7:22 AM, Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu wrote:
>
> > On Thu, 21 Oct 2010 19:21:41 PDT, George Bonser said:
> >
> > > With v6, while changing prefixes is easy for some gear, other gear is
> > > not so easy.  If you number your entire network in Provider A's space,
> > > you might have more trouble renumbering into Provider B's space because
> > > now you have to change your DHCP ranges, probably visit printers, fax
> > > machines, wireless gateways, etc. and renumber those, etc.  And some
> > > production boxes that you might have in the office data center are
> > > probably best left at a static IP address, particularly if they are
> > > fronted by a load balancer where their IP is manually configured.
> >
> > "If Woody had gone straight to a ULA prefix, this would never have happened..."
> Or better yet, if Woody had gone straight to PI, he wouldn't have this problem,
> either.

ula really never should an option... except for a short lived lab,
nothing permanent.