IPv6 Addressing Question

Mike Jones mike at mikejones.in
Sat Apr 6 23:23:28 CEST 2013


Thanks for the pointer. Very interesting summary.

In your research have you found it to be something many people have
considered during the design stage, or was your conversation often the
first time people had heard of the idea?

Thanks,

- Mike


On 6 April 2013 12:32, Eric Vyncke (evyncke) <evyncke at cisco.com> wrote:

>   For your information, Michael (in cc) and I wrote an IETF draft
> presenting the pros and cons of this approach:
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>  http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-opsec-lla-only-03
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>  Comments are welcome
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> *From:* ipv6-ops-bounces+evyncke=cisco.com at lists.cluenet.de [mailto:
> ipv6-ops-bounces+evyncke=cisco.com at lists.cluenet.de] *On Behalf Of *Mike
> Jones
> *Sent:* samedi 6 avril 2013 13:15
> *To:* Sander Steffann
> *Cc:* IPv6 operators forum
> *Subject:* Re: IPv6 Addressing Question
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> On 6 April 2013 11:30, Sander Steffann <sander at steffann.nl> wrote:
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> Hi Mike,
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> > IPv6 routing protocols seem in some cases to exclusively use automatic
> link local addresses. Even for manual configuration, link locals deal with
> the ND exhaustion attack problem in the core quite nicely, while also
> simplifying address management.
> >
> > Are there practical reasons for global addresses on router interfaces?
>
> Pinging interface endpoints for debugging and monitoring, being able to
> see which interface is used in a traceroute, stuff like that. Routing
> protocols can work perfectly fine without global addresses, but netadmins
> have a harder time with just link locals :-)  But true: it is something
> that I have tested in the lab, and it does reduce the attack surface of the
> network a bit.
>
> Cheers,
> Sander
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>
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> Hi,
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> Is it actually that useful to see 50% entered london from nyc on interface
> nyc1-0.lon2.core and 50% on nyc1-1.lon2.core? I believe in theory the
> egress interface is theoretically shown in traceroute which would be useful
> if that actually happened, but i'm not sure the ingress interface you see
> in practice is as useful once the packet has reached that hop?
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> Although I see your point about being able to ping eth3-0.lon2.core and
> eth3-1.lon2.core from nyc and have each point to a specific link to check
> them independently. I had considered that if you were testing this link you
> would do it from nyc using eg fe80::2%lon1, however doing that without
> logging in to the router is useful.
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>
> -Mike
>
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